Travel Stunts from Days of Yore

June 09, 2009

Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now

Here’s a 50th State-appropriate tidbit ganked in its entirety from The Writer’s Almanac.  I like the bit about women getting “worked up” at more than 20 mph.

It was on this day in 1909 that the first woman to drive across the United States, Alice Huyler Ramsey, left New York City for San...

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