A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

We’re up early in Missouri Valley, Iowa. I forget if we’re meeting at 7:30 or 8:00 for breakfast, and I split the difference, finding Bob and Glenn waiting for me in the lobby when I carry two of my bags out to the van at 7:45. We go nearby to a small restaurant in the [...]

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We leave Woodbine about 3 o’clock, grabbing a quick shot on our way out of town of the replica of the Statue of Liberty in front of the Carnegie Library. Several people had mentioned it. We also stop at the western edge of town where Woodbine’s Lincoln Way reconnects with Route 30. We want to [...]

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People in Woodbine know that Route 30 makes an unusual turn there at the one end of their town. If you’re heading east, you cross the Boyer Bridge and then make a sharp right to stay on 30 rather than coming straight into town on the old brick Lincolnway. If you’re heading west on 30, [...]

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We partake of the freebie breakfast in the motel this morning. Cereal and some microwaveable munchies. Yogurt. Sometimes, like today, in Marriott hotels, they also have slippery, already peeled hard boiled eggs. I ate one of those. Before we get back on the interstate, Bob wants to go and see the overflowing Mississippi again. It’s [...]

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In the past couple of months, I’ve become aware of the wonderfully goofy and lively music of a musician named Buddy Nutt who lives here in Pittsburgh. He’s a composer, a singer and a one-man band, playing ukulele, kazoo, drums, cornet, and musical saw, among other things. I’m hoping he will agree to compose the [...]

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Sunday morning. I get up by 9 to catch some of “CBS Sunday Morning,” my favorite TV program. I want to make my stories like theirs, and I really enjoy the commentaries too and the relaxed tone of the news. And of course, it used to be hosted by the late great Charles Kuralt who [...]

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Saturday, after catching the end of Buddy Nutt’s performance on the North Side, I went to WQED to look at interviews that we taped last August and September when we made our first big Lincoln Highway trip. Sunday, after the book-signing event at Border’s East Liberty, I went back to WQED to keep looking at [...]

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