Looking beyond the highway
Subtitle: Dixie roads and culture
By: edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver.
Contributors: Stager, Claudette.; Carver, Martha, 1954-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Roadside architecture -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Description and travel.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.; Dixie Highway -- History.; Dixie Highway -- Description and travel.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The best road south : the failure of the Dixie Highway in Indiana / Suzanne Fischer; title: Drivin' the Dixie Highway in Tennessee / Martha Carver; title: Sidebar : Tennessee Highway Patrol Building, Rockwood / Amanda Regier; title: Heading south without getting sidetracked : the Dixie Highway in Georgia / Jeffrey L. Durbin; title: Sidebar : Atlanta campaign waysides / Tara Mitchell Mielnik; title: Pleasing the eye : brick paving and the Dixie Highway in the Sunshine State / Walter S. Marder; title: Connecting the east and west coasts : the Tamiami Trail of the Sunshine State / Carrie Scupholm; title: The Dollarway Road and road improvement districts in Arkansas, 1913-1921 / Christie H. McLaren; title: The daughters of the American Revolution : Roane F. Byrnes, and the birth of the Natchez Trace Parkway / Sara Amy Leach; title: Roadside luxury : urban hotels and modern streets along the Dixie Highway / R. Stephen Sennott; title: Tourist lodging in the Great Smoky Mountains and the transition from regional to national style / Blythe Semmer; title: Myrtle Beach : music and motels / Katherine Fuller; title: Caving and clogging : keepin' cool in Tennessee's caves / Ruth Nichols Keenoy and Robbie D. Jones; title: Park 'n' pray : an examination of drive-in religion in Florida / Carrie Scupholm; title: Get right with God : Harrison Mayes's advertising campaign for the Lord / Martha Carver; title: Buy one, get two free : fireworks / Karl Puljak; title: Sidebar : fireworks / Tammy Allison; title: Viewpoints and points of view : Florida's early tourist towers / Kimberly D. Hinder; title: Seeing the scenic Upland South : mother nature and the morphology of tourist landscapes / Kevin J. Patrick; title: Pilgrimage route to paradise : the sacred and profane along the Dixie Highway / Robert M. Craig.