2010 Lincoln Highway Association Conference-- Day 1-- Part 4

A LINCOLN HIGHWAY LOVE STORY

I should mention Bernie Queneau and Esther's marriage was a Lincoln Highway Affair of sorts. All these years, he didn't really think all that much of his cross country trip as anything too extraordinary until the LHA contacted him several years back and invited him to a conference.

Esther was more or less put in charge of taking care of him (as he was quite old even then and looking after his wife who was dying at the time). He was invited back a while later and his wife had died and love blossomed so this is a real Lincoln Highway thing. What a story.

We didn't ask, but Bernie has to be at least in his nineties and getting around great and sharp as a tack. Esther is about 12 years younger. This is quite a couple!!


BOY SCOUTING: THE YOUNG AND OLD OF IT

A young boy by the name of Brian Cassler came over and talked to Bernie. Brian has just gotten his Boy Scout Eagle ranking, the highest you can get in the organization.

That would be a great pairing just at that, but, on top it, Brian's project to get the Eagle Scout was to clean, stack and arrange for several thousand bricks from the original Lincoln Highway in Canton, Ohio, to Kearney, Nebraska, where it will be placed in a recreation of the Lincoln Highway at the Great Platte River Road Arch over I-80. Hopefully they will be in place for the 2013 Lincoln Highway Association's National Conference which will be the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Highway which was started in 1913.

Brian is probably 15 or 16, and for him to do what he did is amazing, even if he has been a part of the Lincoln Highway his whole life as his father Jim runs the Lincoln Highway Trading Post. And, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts.

And, the Story's Not Over. I Got Some Interesting Information from Bernie. --RoadDog