On Jan. 20, the Wheels Through Time American Transportation Museum in Maggie Valley [North Carolina], will be making history once again — this time, participating in the 2009 Presidential Inauguration Day Parade. During the historic event, the museum will bring a small fleet of WWI era motorcycles to Washington to participate in a procession celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the transcontinental Army motor convoy on the Lincoln Highway in 1919.

• Local museum to participate in Presidential Inauguration Day Parade, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, January 5, 2009

California Lincoln Highway Association
Quarterly Chapter Meeting
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at Noon

Banta Inn
22563 S 7th St
Banta, CA 95376

Clayton Mehring will lead the program, which will be about Lincoln Highway geocaching. What is geocaching? How does it work? You’ll get a chance to try it out. If you have a handheld GPS unit, bring it along! This program is in keeping with our efforts to acquaint a wider range of people with the Lincoln Highway.

Agenda

1. Recording Secretary for the day
2. Approve minutes of October 4
3. Officers’ reports
4. State director’s report
5. Project reports
6. Announcements
   
   • Heritage Preservation League of Folsom is presenting us an award on Thursday, Jan 8 at 5:00pm at the Folsom Museum. All are invited.
7. Program: Lincoln Highway Geocaching by Clayton Mehring

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, March 21 at the Folsom Museum in Folsom, where we will donate one of our real marker posts to the museum.

Join the Osnaburg Historical Society on Monday, Nov. 10, to hear Jim Cassler from the Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor talk about the historic highway that travels through East Canton and Osnaburg Township.

• Osnaburg Historical Society invites public to presentation by Lincoln Highway expert, The Press News (Minerva, OH), October 29, 2008

Interested adventure buffs can travel the highway themselves with two upcoming events within about a 45-minute drive from Iowa City.

•  A Chance to Tour the Lincoln Highway, Iowa City Press-Citizen, October 28, 2008

Rick Sebak’s latest PBS documentary, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway” will debut nationally Oct. 29.

Sebak, of WQED-TV, will host a VIP premiere Oct. 18 at the Sewickley Car Store, which sits along the original route of the Lincoln Highway, the nation’s first coast-to-coast highway.

• Scott Tady column: Slice of Bacon, Beaver County Times (Beaver, PA), October 12, 2008

Antique car owners and car clubs are invited to join the celebration of the original route of the Lincoln Highway through New Carlisle on Saturday, Oct. 11.

• Lincoln Highway celebration Saturday, The News-Dispatch (Michigan City, IN), October 9, 2008

The Goshen Theater attracted major vaudeville acts on their way from New York to Chicago along the Lincoln Highway.

• Downtown Goshen, Inc. to present Oct. 14 Afternoon Sabbatical about changes to the city, Goshen College, October 7, 2008

From Norman Root, president of the California Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association:

Quarterly Chapter Meeting
Saturday, October 4, 2008
12:00 noon

Baker’s Square Restaurant
255 2nd St (at B St)
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 756-4190

• map

Saturdays at noon is a very busy time for them. They will reserve a table for 20 in the back room. However, others may have to share the other tables in that room. There is plenty of parking all around the building.

They serve breakfast all day with a cost of about $7. Sandwiches run from $8 to $10.

The historic significance of the place is that we have been telling folks for years that this corner is where Lincoln Highway marker post #2369 once stood. I’m not so sure about that now, but, for sure, this is on the Lincoln Highway.

Joanne Pelz is the program, which will be about Lincoln Highway Volkswalks.  She has a mini Lincoln Highway Volkswalk planned for us beginning at 2nd and B.  This program is in keeping with our effort to acquaint a wider range of people with the Lincoln Highway.

John Putch’s film "Route 30", which was screened in Gettysburg on September 27, will premiere in York on October 3.

• Alexis Dow, Get your kicks on Route 30 (scroll down to find the article), The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA), October 2, 2008

Historic New Carlisle is teaming up with the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association to celebrate the original route of the Lincoln Highway through New Carlisle on Saturday, Oct. 11.

• Lincoln Highway to be celebrated in New Carlisle, The News-Dispatch (Michigan City, IN), September 25, 2008