Year: 2008

Sat 1/3: California chapter of LHA meeting

Posted on by James Lin

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.

11/10: A presentation on the Lincoln Highway in Ohio

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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.

Rick Sebak’s Lincoln Highway documentary premieres

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Rick Sebak’s latest documentary, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway,” premiered on PBS on October 29. If you missed it, your local PBS station will probably show it again sometime this weekend — be sure to check your local listings. (For example, KQED in San Francisco is showing it tonight at 6 PM and Wednesday at 2 AM.) You also buy it online at Shop PBS.

It made it onto the “must see” list of many newspapers. Here is some of the more notable press coverage:

And here’s a teaser:

 

Calumet Heritage Conference features Lincoln Highway tour

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The ninth annual Calumet Heritage Conference, “Calumet Crossroads: Changes and Challenges in Regional Transportation,” offered lectures, exhibits and networking opportunities at Indiana University Northwest in Gary…. Conference participants took a bus tour along Lincoln Highway on both sides of the Indiana-Illinois state line. Author and historian Cynthia Ogorek accompanied them as she narrated excepts from her book, “The Historic Lincoln Highway Around Chicago.”

VIP Premiere of Lincoln Highway documentary in Sewickley, Pennsylvania

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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.