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.
Interested adventure buffs can travel the highway themselves with two upcoming events within about a 45-minute drive from Iowa City.
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:
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.”
The lighting for the Lincoln Highway Streetscape has been put on hold.
The red carpet was rolled out on Sept. 27 at Majestic Theatre, Gettysburg, for the sold-out area premiere of “Route 30,” John Putch’s film that focuses on three stories along U.S. Route 30.
The trustees of Osnaburg Township discussed saving the historical section of Cindell Street, which is the old Lincoln Highway.
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.
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.
There is a never-ending list of charitable functions in town that business owners are asked to sponsor and the general public to attend. Our last car show, Lincoln Highway Car Show on Sept. 6 at Haydocy Chevrolet-Buick, was one such event.