Family Vacation
Full of maps, ephemera, and old family photos, Family Vacation conjures the golden age of family vacations, when today's baby boomers were backseat kids playing the alphabet game and arguing about who got the window seat.In the good old days, when gas was 28 cents a gallon, families traveled the country in automobiles in search of monuments, the Wild West, the beach, the White House, a spot to camp, or Grandma's house. Regardless of where your family went, Family Vacation will bring to mind all the fun and frivolity as it celebrates the memories of those treasured times with the family.Susan Sessions Rugh, PhD, is a professor of History at Brigham Young University. She is an expert in the history of twentieth-century tourism and is the author of Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (2008), which the Wall Street Journal called "a fascinating journey through America's recent past."