Check out the story about yard sale signs in the Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/garage-sale-warrior/2010/08/sign-sign-everwhere-a-sign-its-all-about-the-arrow.html
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Lincoln Highway Buy-Way
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Kay Shelton, State Director
Illinois Lincoln Highway Association
1006 N. 15th St.
DeKalb, IL 60115
Phone: 815-748-7211
E-mail: lincolnhighway2010@yahoo.com
Last Call for Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Sales
It is not too late to join in the annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way! Anyone along or close to the Lincoln Highway is welcome to have a yard sale or a garage sale, anytime Thursday through Saturday, August 5, 6, and 7. Participants can join in for as little as $8, which includes a sign, a map and description on the Web site, and we will find your GPS coordinates for those driving. To participate, complete the form found at: http://illinoislincolnhighway.tripod.com/yardsale.html or call the Lincoln Highway Association National Tourism Headquarters in Franklin Grove during the day, including weekends, at: 815-456-3030.
For those looking for clusters of sales, both Ashton and Fulton return to the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way with town-wide sales. The DeKalb Area Women’s Center at 1021 State Street returns with a parking lot sale Thursday through Saturday with indoor locations Friday and Saturday if it rains. Look for a vehicle representing the DeKalb Area Women’s Center and the Lincoln Highway Association Illinois Chapter President, Wayne Silvius, driving his award-winning antique car in the Lincoln Highway Parade on June 30th, at 7:00 p.m. in DeKalb.
The Lincoln Highway Buy-Way annual sale began in 2005 in Ohio and generated a conservatively estimated $10,000,000 to the local economy in Ohio last year, not counting individual sales. People from at least fourteen states visited Ohio’s sales in 2009. Sales for 2010 can be found along the Lincoln Highway in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. Begun in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast improved highway. The Lincoln Highway begins in Times Square, New York City, travels through fourteen states, and ends over 3,389 miles later near the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco.
Contact:
Kay Shelton, State Director
Illinois Lincoln Highway Association
1006 N. 15th St.
DeKalb, IL 60115
Phone: 815-748-7211
E-mail: lincolnhighway2010@yahoo.com
Last Call for Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Sales
It is not too late to join in the annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way! Anyone along or close to the Lincoln Highway is welcome to have a yard sale or a garage sale, anytime Thursday through Saturday, August 5, 6, and 7. Participants can join in for as little as $8, which includes a sign, a map and description on the Web site, and we will find your GPS coordinates for those driving. To participate, complete the form found at: http://illinoislincolnhighway.tripod.com/yardsale.html or call the Lincoln Highway Association National Tourism Headquarters in Franklin Grove during the day, including weekends, at: 815-456-3030.
For those looking for clusters of sales, both Ashton and Fulton return to the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way with town-wide sales. The DeKalb Area Women’s Center at 1021 State Street returns with a parking lot sale Thursday through Saturday with indoor locations Friday and Saturday if it rains. Look for a vehicle representing the DeKalb Area Women’s Center and the Lincoln Highway Association Illinois Chapter President, Wayne Silvius, driving his award-winning antique car in the Lincoln Highway Parade on June 30th, at 7:00 p.m. in DeKalb.
The Lincoln Highway Buy-Way annual sale began in 2005 in Ohio and generated a conservatively estimated $10,000,000 to the local economy in Ohio last year, not counting individual sales. People from at least fourteen states visited Ohio’s sales in 2009. Sales for 2010 can be found along the Lincoln Highway in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. Begun in 1913, the Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast improved highway. The Lincoln Highway begins in Times Square, New York City, travels through fourteen states, and ends over 3,389 miles later near the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco.
Friday, July 09, 2010
The $10,000,000+ Yard Sale
Yes, you read that right, the $10,000,000 yard sale. Last week at the Lincoln Highway Association annual conference in Dixon, one guest speaker was Mike Hocker, the Executive Director of the of the Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, and one of the key organizers of the annual Buy-Way in Ohio. Mike, who says he does not like yard sales, estimates the annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale brings in an extra $10,000,000 to the economy in Ohio, mostly for gas and lodging, without counting the yard sale profits themselves. Mike convinced the Ohio Department of Transportation to conduct three traffic counts during the yard sale last year. Compared to a ‘normal’ weekend, the traffic is up on yard sale weekend.
The first year, there were 250 sales in Ohio along the Lincoln Highway and it grew to around 1,000 yard sales last year. He and his wife traveled the length of the state, saying hello to as many of those hosting sales as possible. The Buy-Way in Ohio is a well-organized event that takes months of planning by volunteers, advertisers, businesses, and yard sale enthusiasts. An April edition of American Profile magazine which appeared in many of the Sunday papers all across the United States, featured an interview with Mike about the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale.
So many people come to Ohio from other states that Hocker and his group decided to move the annual event to so people can go to both the Highway 127 Corridor Sale and the Lincoln Highway sale.
In DeKalb, for those who do not have garage or yard space to hold a sale, the DeKalb Area Women’s Center will host space in their parking lot. For $5 a parking space, people can rent a parking space on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Call 815-758-1351 or e-mail dawc@niu.edu for more information. The rain location will be inside the Women’s Center on Friday and Saturday. Hours will be:
Thursday, August 5, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Friday, August 6, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 7, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
*****
By the way, the Lincoln Highway Association Conference brought in approximately $60,000 to the local Dixon economy, just for hotel rooms, food, tour bus rental, and event costs. That does not include what conference participants spent on food and shopping themselves. The local hotel tax brought in an estimated $2,000+ to Dixon.
The first year, there were 250 sales in Ohio along the Lincoln Highway and it grew to around 1,000 yard sales last year. He and his wife traveled the length of the state, saying hello to as many of those hosting sales as possible. The Buy-Way in Ohio is a well-organized event that takes months of planning by volunteers, advertisers, businesses, and yard sale enthusiasts. An April edition of American Profile magazine which appeared in many of the Sunday papers all across the United States, featured an interview with Mike about the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale.
So many people come to Ohio from other states that Hocker and his group decided to move the annual event to so people can go to both the Highway 127 Corridor Sale and the Lincoln Highway sale.
In DeKalb, for those who do not have garage or yard space to hold a sale, the DeKalb Area Women’s Center will host space in their parking lot. For $5 a parking space, people can rent a parking space on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Call 815-758-1351 or e-mail dawc@niu.edu for more information. The rain location will be inside the Women’s Center on Friday and Saturday. Hours will be:
Thursday, August 5, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Friday, August 6, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 7, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
*****
By the way, the Lincoln Highway Association Conference brought in approximately $60,000 to the local Dixon economy, just for hotel rooms, food, tour bus rental, and event costs. That does not include what conference participants spent on food and shopping themselves. The local hotel tax brought in an estimated $2,000+ to Dixon.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
"Master Jack" Kelley of Farming Heritage
Farming Heritage of Franklin Grove is a tremendous support for the Lincoln Highway Association, especially for the use of the H.I. Lincoln Building for the National Tourism Headquarters. LHA member and Hobo Redbird Express comes to the Chaplin Creek outdoor museum on the third Tuesday of every August. If you have not attended one of these potluck suppers, you are missing out! The next one will be Tuesday, August 17th, 2010. Jack Kelley of Farming Heritage and many other organizations in Franklin Grove received an honorary hobo name at the annual event on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Conference Information and Registration Now Online
Information on the 2010 Conference in Dixon and a registration form to print off and mail in is now online at:
http://illinoislincolnhighway.tripod.com/2010.html
http://illinoislincolnhighway.tripod.com/2010.html
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Pictures from the Military Convoy
Pictures from the 2009 Military Vehicle Preservation Association Convoy are up here: http://illinoislincolnhighway.tripod.com/mvpa.html This photo is from DeKalb, Illinois, Saturday, June 20th.
If you have pictures posted somewhere, please let us know!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Military Convoy in DeKalb, Part 1
In the summer of 2009, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association celebrated the 90th Anniversary of the First Transcontinental Army Convoy (and the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln) with a coast-to-coast re-creation across the world's largest memorial to Lincoln, the Lincoln Highway. The Convoy passed through the City of DeKalb, Illinois on Saturday, June 20, 2009 and local online journalist Mac McIntyre captured some video footage as the vehicles rolled by. Thanks to the airport in Rochelle, three airplanes flew overhead to welcome the Convoy.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Computer Hackers
The Illinois Lincoln Highway listserv through GoogleGroups got hacked. I am taking the links down, then trying to clean up the listserv. The chances of those responsible getting caught are slim to none because they could come from anywhere in the world.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
PBS
If you missed the PBS / WQED documentary, A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway it is not too late! You can order a copy on DVD from WQED here. They will start shipping on December 1st, so just in time for Christmas. And please, print off a page from the WQED Web site, take it to your local public library, and suggest that they purchase a copy.
The documentary covers something from all over the Lincoln Highway and LHA's own Brian Butko worked as the historian. It features an interview with Lynn Asp at the Headquarters in Franklin Grove and interviews with many of the LHA members who attended the Evanston, Wyoming conference. There are pictures of the school buses used for the Wyoming tour that everybody who went to the conference talked about afterward. The new, comfortable buses for the Utah west tour could not be used on the dusty, more rugged Wyoming east tour. The documentary has spectacular images as the Lincoln Highway crosses through some of the most beautiful areas in the United States.
Not all of the video footage could fit into the one-hour PBS program, so check out the video links of extra information here!
Songs
There are a few recent Lincoln Highway songs.
The group Shadric wrote a song called Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway with three different versions. The 2008 lyrics are printed here. There is a keyboards only version to listen to here.
Buddy McNutt wrote a completely new song for the PBS special, Goin' All the Way. You can listen to it by going here and clicking the Listen button. If it looks like and sounds like . . . it must be a ukulele!
The group Cornbread performing Lincoln Highway at Floodstock in July of 2008, a fund-raiser for victims of the horrible flooding in Iowa, especially Cedar Rapids. My bet is that someone recorded the video using a camera phone:
The rock band Sublime which no longer plays together did a tune called Lincoln Highway Dub which was instrumental. They used the same tune for another song later. This is the instrumental version:
The group Shadric wrote a song called Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway with three different versions. The 2008 lyrics are printed here. There is a keyboards only version to listen to here.
Buddy McNutt wrote a completely new song for the PBS special, Goin' All the Way. You can listen to it by going here and clicking the Listen button. If it looks like and sounds like . . . it must be a ukulele!
The group Cornbread performing Lincoln Highway at Floodstock in July of 2008, a fund-raiser for victims of the horrible flooding in Iowa, especially Cedar Rapids. My bet is that someone recorded the video using a camera phone:
The rock band Sublime which no longer plays together did a tune called Lincoln Highway Dub which was instrumental. They used the same tune for another song later. This is the instrumental version:
Saturday, September 06, 2008
September 13 and September 14
On Saturday, September 13th, the Illinois Chapter will have a meeting in Franklin Grove at 12:30 p.m.
Sent to the blog from Jane Nicoll is the following information:
"On September 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. Cynthia Ogorek will present her program on this book for the Park Forest Historical Society. The public is welcome. She will be selling her books after the program.
We will be At Park Forest Village Hall, 350 Victory Drive in Downtown Park Forest. Hope you can come!"
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Sent to the blog from Jane Nicoll is the following information:
"On September 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. Cynthia Ogorek will present her program on this book for the Park Forest Historical Society. The public is welcome. She will be selling her books after the program.
We will be At Park Forest Village Hall, 350 Victory Drive in Downtown Park Forest. Hope you can come!"
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Striking Back at Gas Pump Pain!
California Chapter member and Map Committee Chair Paul Gilger sent a picture of his car, and his way of striking back at high gas prices! Paul leads the group of volunteers responsible for creating the Official Lincoln Highway Driving Maps software for the DeLorme Stree Atlas software program.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Yard Sale 08 - 08 - 08
The annual Yard Sale will begin on 08 - 08 - 08 and the price for a yard sign will be lower this year, $8. Registering for a sign will also include a GPS location for all available street addresses and mapping.
Signs will be available in Franklin Grove, the home of the Lincoln Highway Association National Tourism Headquarters:
136 N. Elm St.
P.O. Box 308
Franklin Grove, IL 61031
(815) 456-3030
Longitude: -89.29929
Latitude: 41.84207
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Signs will be available in Franklin Grove, the home of the Lincoln Highway Association National Tourism Headquarters:
136 N. Elm St.
P.O. Box 308
Franklin Grove, IL 61031
(815) 456-3030
Longitude: -89.29929
Latitude: 41.84207
View Larger Map
Friday, March 07, 2008
Surprise Number Two!
I wrote weeks ago about two surprises. The first one is that Cynthia Ogorek's book on the Lincoln Highway is coming out through Arcadia Press. Now I can tell you about the second surprise, the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb is getting an authentic Wurlitzer theater pipe organ, shipped out from Virginia. It is going to cost a mint to get it installed, but the theater originally had an organ, and after installation, the theater will become complete again. This future enhancement will complement the Rialto in Joliet and the Paramount in Aurora. This entire area already serves as a major representation of historic theaters, and that will just improve even more. I think there were just the four main types of theaters in the United States, Egyptian, Paramount, Rialto, and Fox. This area has three of those.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Happy Double Birthdays in 2008!
Happy 20th Birthday to Lee County Tourism in 2008! Check out activities and places to visit on the Lee County Tourism Web site at:
http://www.leecountytourism.com/
Today, March 1, 2008, is the 30th Birthday to an all volunteer group in DeKalb, the P.E.T. Inc. (Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre). Although DeKalb is infamous for tearing down the Old Post Office along Lincoln Highway, the preservation of the Egyptian Theatre is a success story, and it is one of the most photographed places along the Lincoln Highway (just two buildings off the route) in Illinois. The Web site for the Egyptian Theatre is at:
http://www.egyptiantheatre.org/
As always--for full disclosure, the blog master is on the Membership Committee for the Friends of the Egyptian Theatre.
http://www.leecountytourism.com/
Today, March 1, 2008, is the 30th Birthday to an all volunteer group in DeKalb, the P.E.T. Inc. (Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre). Although DeKalb is infamous for tearing down the Old Post Office along Lincoln Highway, the preservation of the Egyptian Theatre is a success story, and it is one of the most photographed places along the Lincoln Highway (just two buildings off the route) in Illinois. The Web site for the Egyptian Theatre is at:
http://www.egyptiantheatre.org/
As always--for full disclosure, the blog master is on the Membership Committee for the Friends of the Egyptian Theatre.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Tragedy at Northern Illinois University
With Northern Illinois University right on the Lincoln Highway, we have members of the Illinois Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association who are also members of the NIU extended community, past and present. We pass our condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
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