Library to Hold Program on Highway 20
Gail Irwin
May 14, 2010
On May 25th at 7 p.m., Michael Czarnecki, will do a presentation at the Ainsworth Public Library on his travels over America’s longest road-U.S. Highway 20. Michael is a poet, publisher, and oral memoirist who will share photos, stories, poems, and prose of his experiences along Route 20, both past and present. In the autumn of 1996 he traveled 20 days on this longest route through the United States and wrote a book about his adventures, “Twenty Days on Route 20”. Now, 14 years later, he once again traveled the length of U.S. 20, this time in the spring, spending 28 days on the road from Boston, MA to Newport, OR.
Czarnecki said “that U.S. 20 is the longest U.S. highway. It connects the two coasts, crosses the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and takes you to Yellowstone National Park!
You find cities, small towns, rolling hills, eastern woodlands and farms, Midwestern plains, and wild western landscapes. What more could one want in a single route, a route that today is garnering much interest in its historic significance.”
We have all heard about traveling Route 66 but it doesn’t exist anymore - 20 does. We live right by this famous highway and what do we know about it? Come and hear all about this road that leads to wonderful places. Admittance charge will be by free will donation. For more information about Michael and the U.S. 20 Journey 2010 can be found at: www.foothillspublishing.com/us20/.
