{"id":17815,"date":"2009-08-19T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:56:02","slug":"take-a-road-trip-without-leaving-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/take-a-road-trip-without-leaving-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a road trip without leaving campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cline Library\u2019s \u201cRoute 66 in Arizona: Don\u2019t Forget Winona!\u201d an exhibit of information and memorabilia from one of the world\u2019s most admired highways, opens with a public reception from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibit shows the interplay between Route 66 and the communities in Arizona through which it passes,\u201d explains\u00a0Sean Evans<\/strong>, curator and Cline Library archivist.<\/p>\n

Designed to take people on a visual journey of the historic highway, the exhibit\u2019s vintage photography, postcards, maps, signs, old car parts and a chunk of Route 66 asphalt, bring the “Mother Road” to life in the library\u2019s second floor Special Collections and Archives area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>\nCurator Sean Evans proudly displays his neon Route 66 sign featured in NAU\u2019s \u201cRoute 66 in Arizona: Don\u2019t Forget Winona!\u201d exhibit in Cline Library.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cRoute 66 has been seen as a piece of the past that relates more to popular culture than scholarly study, but that is changing as more historians look to the highway for its influence on communities, architecture and culture,\u201d Evans says.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is organized to show how the road affected Flagstaff, trading posts and culture throughout Arizona. It establishes the importance of \u201cthe highway that is the best<\/a>\u201d with a case brimming with Route 66 publications from around the world. One display case is dedicated to people who have helped preserve Route 66 history. Video interviews with these people are available through the library.<\/p>\n

NAU lies along the 1926-1967 alignment of Route 66 through Flagstaff. Cline Library is one of 10 U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service Route 66 Archives and Research Collaborative repositories designated from within the eight states intersected by Route 66.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoute 66 in Arizona: Don\u2019t Forget Winona!\u201d will run through August 2010 and will be available online for years to come via NAU’s\u00a0Colorado Plateau Digital Archives<\/a>\u2014a site that includes more than 1,000 Route 66 images and receives 2.2 million hits a year.<\/p>\n

The show opening coincides with Flagstaff\u2019s Route 66 Days and the Route 66 Preservation Foundation’s Will Rogers Awards held Sept. 10 to 13 in Flagstaff. The event brings thousands of visitors to town, including international car club members, for a car show and Route 66 activities.<\/p>\n

Evans, one of the highway\u2019s biggest fans, plans to be there.<\/p>\n

Dressed in one of his 50 or so Route 66-themed Hawaiian shirts, Evans says his childhood\u2019s family road trips from East to West first sparked his interest in the highway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a saying I like:\u00a0The best place on Route 66 is where you are and where you are going<\/a>,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Parking for the reception is available at the High Country Conference Center garage, with shuttles running every 10 minutes. For information, contact\u00a0Cline.Library@nau.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call (928) 523-6802.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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