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Looking beyond the highway : Dixie roads and culture / edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver

Catalog Data

Author:
Stager, Claudette  Search this
Carver, Martha 1954-  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Southern States
Dixie Highway
Date:
2006
C2006
Contents:
The best road south : the failure of the Dixie Highway in Indiana / Suzanne Fischer -- Drivin' the Dixie Highway in Tennessee / Martha Carver -- Sidebar : Tennessee Highway Patrol Building, Rockwood / Amanda Regier -- Heading south without getting sidetracked : the Dixie Highway in Georgia / Jeffrey L. Durbin -- Sidebar : Atlanta campaign waysides / Tara Mitchell Mielnik -- Pleasing the eye : brick paving and the Dixie Highway in the Sunshine State / Walter S. Marder -- Connecting the east and west coasts : the Taimiami [sic] Trail of the Sunshine State / Carrie Scupholm -- The Dollarway Road and road improvement districts in Arkansas, 1913-1921 / Christie H. McLaren -- The daughters of the American Revolution : Roane F. Byrnes, and the birth of the Natchez Trace Parkway / Sara Amy Leach -- Roadside luxury : urban hotels and modern streets along the Dixie Highway / R. Stephen Sennott -- Tourist lodging in the Great Smoky Mountains and the transition from regional to national style / Blythe Semmer -- Myrtle Beach : music and motels / Katherine Fuller -- Caving and clogging : keepin' cool in Tennessee's caves / Ruth Nichols Keenoy and Robbie D. Jones -- Park 'n' pray : an examination of drive-in religion in Florida / Carrie Scupholm -- Get right with God : Harrison Mayes's advertising campaign for the Lord / Martha Carver -- Buy one, get two free : fireworks / Karl Puljak -- Sidebar : fireworks / Tammy Allison -- Viewpoints and points of view : Florida's early tourist towers / Kimberly D. Hinder -- Seeing the scenic Upland South : mother nature and the morphology of tourist landscapes / Kevin J. Patrick -- Pilgrimage route to paradise : the sacred and profane along the Dixie Highway / Robert M. Craig
Topic:
Roadside architecture  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_798056