Category: Events

Park Forest, Illinois Historical Society features the Lincoln Highway

Posted on by James Lin

The Park Forest Historical Society [in Park Forest, Illinois] will hold kickoff its 2008-2009 program season with a program on the history of the Lincoln Highway.

The event will take place on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. in the Village Board Meeting Room of the Park Forest Village Hall, located in Downtown Park Forest at 350 Victory Drive….

Cynthia Ogorek’s new book, The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago, published by Arcadia in March, will be featured in an "armchair tour" of the Highway from "The Ideal Section" in Schererville and Dyer, IN, to Geneva on the Fox River in Illinois.

Iowa Lincoln Highway tour begins

Posted on by James Lin

A three-day First Inaugural Tour of Lincoln Highway in Iowa began on August 8:

According to State Director of the Iowa Lincoln Highway Association, Jeff LaFollette, this three-day tour has been in the works for the past few years. He said that the purpose of this tour is to promote the Lincoln Highway and to educate people about the road and the surrounding areas.

Iowa LHA Motor Tour drives through Boone

Posted on by James Lin

Remembering one’s history is often a fond activity sitting down among friends and food. The Iowa Lincoln Highway Association is trying to transplant the activity from one’s living room to multiple cars across the state of Iowa in its first ever River to River Motor Tour.

Movie which takes place along the Lincoln Highway debuts in Gettysburg

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John Putch’s low-budget "Route 30", which has three interconnected stories taking place along the Lincoln Highway from Chambersburg to Gettysburg, premiered at Stony Brook Film Festival in New York on July 19. It will be screened in Gettysburg on September 27.

Motor scooter riders finish their Lincoln Highway trek in Times Square

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Bob Chase and Bernard "Buddy" Rosenbaum have finished their cross-country trip across the Lincoln Highway on their Piaggio MP3 scooters. One of their goals was to raise awareness for the Lincoln Highway.

Traveler guide for Ohio Lincoln Highway Buy-Way now available

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A Lincoln Highway BUY-WAY Yard Sale Travelers Guide is being distributed along the corridors of Ohio’s portion of America’s historic first coast-to-coast paved road. The guide is a free and useful tool for people planning to travel the fourth annual BUY- WAY Yard Sale which will take place Aug. 7, 8 and 9.