Lincoln Highway, Sept. 2020: Olga Herbert Retires as Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Executive Director

News from the Lincoln Highway.

Continued from December 30, 2020.

The beginning of the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor was  very modest.  Olga Herbert said she set up the organization's first office in her daughter's bedroom after she left for college.

"We've had nine different offices," she said.  "We'd be driving down the road and see a sign 'for rent.'  If the rent  was $50 cheaper, we'd say, 'Get the U-Haul, we're moving again.' "

"I feel really good about leaving now," she said.  "The organization has come a long way, and it will be in good hands with Lauren."  (Lauren Buches, who will be the new director.)

Herbert says she is especially proud of the Lincoln Highway Experience, which features both permanent and temporary highway-related exhibits, along with a tourist cabin from the 1930s and the restored Serro's Diner which was relocated from Irwin.

--RoadDog