Road Trip photos

 Kathleen shares photos she has taken at places mentioned in Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.

Owls Head Museum, ME, invented in W. Ossipee

Milbrook Sculpture Gallery, Concord, NH

Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY

Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, PA

Lenterman Mill, Youngstown, OH

Madison, WI

L.I. Wilder Historical Homes, DeSmet, SD

Oregon Trail, Montpelier, ID

rain forest, WA

Pendleton Woolen Mill, OR

Manzanar Camp, near Fresno CA

Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron, NE

Los Ebanos ferry, TX

 

For August: More road trip books and writing about road trips

Our summer virtual American Road Trip series wraps up in August. We have a bunch of road trip books to lend, and also encourage you to write about an American Road Trip, one that you went on, or the one you would have liked to have taken this summer.

Join the conversation at our wrap-up meeting online on Zoom on Monday, August 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Online: https://zoom.us/
On the phone (audio only): 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 883 4624 9553
Password: 360230

To share your road trip writing, go to our shared Google Doc.

To find a list of road trip books available to borrow, see https://cooklibraryroadtrip.blogspot.com/p/road-trip-books.html. You may make an appointment to browse the selection of books during library hours, or you may ask library staff to put one of them out for you outside the library on our curbside pickup table. Call 323-8510 to make an appointment or to ask to pick up one of the books. 

Things to think about as you begin reading

In July, our virtual road trip includes reading and discussing Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. We recommend this resource to help frame your reading or answer some of your questions from

San Jose State University (California) as part of a "Steinbeck in the Schools" curriculum for grades 6-12. The Pre-Reading Activities offer a good place to start.

For July: Reading and discussing Travels with Charley

Our virtual road trip for the next few weeks is to read Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. 

If you need a copy of the book, you can pick up a new paperback copy at the library, and keep it thanks to an anonymous donation. Just call the library to request one of the books. 

If you prefer to borrow an ebook copy, two copies of Travels with Charley are available exclusively for Cook Library cardholders at nh.overdrive.com thanks to a grant provided to the New Hampshire State Library by New Hampshire Humanities as part of the CARES Act. 

Join us on Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom for a discussion of Travels with Charley. 

Join Zoom Meeting

Online: https://zoom.us/

On the phone (audio only): 1-929-205-6099

Meeting ID: 883 4624 9553

Password: 360230

Coming up for August: reading other American road trip books, writing and sharing our own American road trip tales, Zoom wrap-up meeting on August 17. 

Join us!

The summer of 2020 will be different. Travel plans are set aside for stay-at-home and social distancing. So, we're inviting you to take a virtual road trip with us.

Beginning with John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America as a point of departure, we'll discuss this and other books about road trips, traveling, traveling with dogs, and more. Everyone who asks can pick up a copy (to keep and share) of Travels with Charley thanks to an anonymous donor and a CARES Act grant. If you want a copy of the book, email mary@tamworthlibrary.org by June 19. You will pick your book up on the curbside pickup table outside the library.

You will choose how you will participate in this program. You can simply read the suggested books and the online content we provide. Or you may share your thoughts on this blog we've created just for this program, https://cooklibraryroadtrip.blogspot.com/. Or you can join the Facebook Group "Say, is this the USA!" moderated by Nathaniel (Nate) Winship, whose enthusiasm and deep knowledge of road trip literature inspired this program. Nate will also lend books from his extensive collection of road trip books.