Almost Heaven Lincoln Highway

The Almost Heaven Lincoln Highway book I mentioned back on October 7 is now for sale at Blurb Bookstore. The cover of the book uses what appears to be a foggy early morning black and white photograph of the Almost Heaven sign in the front yard of the Rustic Log Home which originally sat at the southern end of the midway in Rock Springs Park. In fact, there is no title font on the book's cover; the sign in the photograph says it all.

A hardcover ImageWrap copy of the book is $75.95 and the softcover is $56.95.

The website describes the book as "an odyssey along the Lincoln Highway with Kass and Eric Mencher as they search for the people and places that shape a complex country in unexpected ways. The Menchers focus on both the mundane and the unordinary, piecing together a nuanced and textured portrait of life along the nation's first cross-country road."

Almost Heaven

The proposed cover of a new book on the Lincoln Highway features the "Almost Heaven" sign displayed in the front lawn of Rock Springs Park’s Rustic Log Cabin after it was moved 100 yards to avoid “the path of progress” in 1974. Don Chaney, who purchased the log house at auction for 100 dollars, had the sign constructed to greet visitors crossing the new Jennings Randolph Bridge from Ohio into West Virginia. The image (above) on the cover of Eric and Kass Mencher's photographic tribute book shows the sign, placed as it is today, against the cement wall of the park’s arched Shoot-the-Chutes Bridge.

For more information on the book and to find out how you can support its completion read Brian Butko’s Lincoln Highway News at http://brianbutko.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/new-lincoln-highway-photo-book-underway/.