As Drew Knowles’ “Route 66 Adventure Handbook” tirelessly points out, the highway the book calls “the route to our roots … a microcosm of historic roadside America” still holds plenty of kicks.
Continue reading →At home, women took essential, noncombat positions, freeing men to fight. Abroad, they often served “mere miles away from the front lines.” Some were wounded. Some spent years in P.O.W. camps. Some never came home at all. But they helped end a war.
Continue reading →Even when they weren’t touring, The Allman Brothers Band was always on the move, sometimes recklessly. Members’ lives were marked by fatal accidents, horrible addictions — and extraordinary music.
Continue reading →Chris Epting’s “It Happened Right Here: America’s Pop Culture Landmarks” is an often off-the-beaten-track travel guide that provides plenty of stories and addresses.
Continue reading →“I wrote ‘No Ordinary Assignment’ with one main purpose in mind,” Jane Ferguson explains. “To answer with total honesty the question: Why do you do this work? Really, why?”
Continue reading →Nat Segaloff’s “The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear” has some ideas about how the scary story cast such a lingering spell over audiences.
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