The Freeways Video Text--click here to download

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Instructions to artistic submissions:

We would like to include stories, plays, and songs related to the following topics:

• 1)       stories of the various inns along the Ridge Route and the people who ran them.
• 2)       stories of the travelers, both pleasure and truckers;
• 3)      information on the Environmental Humanities aspect of this road building
• 4)      information about Environmental Humanities aspect of Historical road preservation
• 5)      stories of pyramid dam
• 6)      story about Hungry Valley SVRA
• 7)      stories of the infrastructure of utilities and aqueduct
• 8)      the impact of concrete and asphalt roads upon the environment

Here are links to historical resources to assist in your creative compositions:

This is a source of local historical books

Click on "map" and topics below map for information

Click Here for more resources to help you in writing about this time period.