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March 06-08, 2025

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The Lincoln Highway

Andrew Borowiec

Friday, October 24 - 4:00PM to 4:45PM
Clark Theater

When the Lincoln Highway opened in 1913 it was the first paved road across America. Originating in New York City's Times Square, it passed through fourteen states to arrive at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco. As a road designed specifically for automobile travel in an era when most goods were shipped by barge or railroad, the Lincoln Highway brought considerable prosperity to the hundreds of towns fortunate enough to be included on its trajectory from coast to coast. A century later, however, many of those communities exemplify the difficult times that Americans are facing in the lingering aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, even while some places along the Lincoln Highway have remained pockets of considerable affluence.

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