I know I’ve not yet arrived at the Conference, and here’s yet another pre-conference “highlight.”  So what?  Most true travelers know that the journey is often better and more delicious than the destination.
It’s almost 7 o’clock in the evening when I get to downtown Van Wert, Ohio.
I was here last year with my cameraman Bob [...]

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Since the LHA conference is all about the highway, how you choose to get there is an important part of the fun.  I think everybody wants to drive, but as one woman from Utah told me at lunch in South Bend, “I wanted to drive but my kids wouldn’t let me.  So I thought I’d [...]

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This past week, instead of sitting in the editing room at WQED, I got to go to South Bend, Indiana, for the 2009 Lincoln Highway Conference.
This annual gathering of history-and-roadway-loving people from across the country is always held in a town along one or another of the various routes of the Lincoln Highway.  (There were [...]

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