News along the Lincoln Highway. September 29, 2020
Lauren Buches is currently with the Latrobe Art Center and is a University of Pittsburgh graduate with degrees in history and journalism. She has worked at Westmoreland Heritage, Bushy Run Battlefield (Pontiac's Rebellion 1763) and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
She will be splitting her time in October between the art museum and training with Olga Hebert, outgoing executive director of the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor.
As for Olga Herbert, she will still be on the road as she and her husband Joe travel to visit their five children. It just won't be on Route 30, the Lincoln Highway.
"There's other roads out there besides the Lincoln Highway," she said. "I feel good that more people know the Lincoln Highway than they did twenty-five years ago. It's always been a runner-up to Route 66 -- but nor for long."
Well, Liz and I sure found out about the Lincoln Highway, but not until about eighteen years ago, even though we had spent out college years at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, right on the Lincoln Highway, where the road is still named Lincoln Highway. We used to do what our friends referred to as the Lincoln Crawl from one bar to another on the famed road. We never knew that it was just a part of a much bigger and more important highway.
Hey, college town you know.
Thanks Carl Fisher. --RoadLinc
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