America’s first coast-to-coast highway begins in Times Square and makes a convoluted jaunt across New Jersey through Weehawken, Jersey City, Newark, Rahway, Edison, New Brunswick, Kingston, Princeton and Trenton before heading to Philadelphia. Through a dozen states, on the way to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, the nearly 3,400-mile Lincoln Highway passes through bustling urban centers and peaceful farmlands, over majestic mountains and rolling prairies. Barry Pavelec will talk about the history of the Lincoln Highway and its passage through Central New Jersey, from its designation until its fame, but not its utility, faded. He also will discuss other key roads that crisscross the Raritan Valley and their significant impact upon the region’s social and commercial growth. The program will take place on October 19, 2014, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Metlar-Bodine House Museum, 1281 River Road, Piscataway, NJ. The coast-to-coast roadway, which turned 100 years old in 2013, embodies that uniquely American notion of the free, open highway - the road trip that connects America - where drivers can dip their toes in the Atlantic Ocean at one end of the continent and in the Pacific Ocean at the other. In a time when drivers zip across the country on interstates, the Lincoln Highway is a throw-back to an era when people traveled at a slower pace. Mr. Pavelec is a local author who has written extensively about the history of our region. In the early 1990s, he was editor and feature writer for Omnibus Magazine, a bi-monthly publication of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, distributed to 100,000 New Jersey commuters. Many of his articles dealt with the historical aspect of travel and commerce in the NY-NJ metropolitan area. He also co-authored The Jersey Game, a history of baseball focused on its birth and growth in the Garden State, published by Rutgers University Press. He is co-founder of Gillespie & Pavelec Advertising Agency, located in Princeton, NJ. He resides with his family in Kingston, NJ. America’s first coast-to-coast highway begins in Times Square and makes a convoluted jaunt across New Jersey through Weehawken, Jersey City, Newark, Rahway, Edison, New Brunswick, Kingston, Princeton and Trenton before heading to Philadelphia. Through a dozen states, on the way to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, the nearly 3,400-mile Lincoln Highway passes through bustling urban centers and peaceful farmlands, over majestic mountains and rolling prairies. Barry Pavelec will talk about the history of the Lincoln Highway and its passage through Central New Jersey, from its designation until its fame, but not its utility, faded. He also will discuss other key roads that crisscross the Raritan Valley and their significant impact upon the region’s social and commercial growth. The program will take place on October 19, 2014, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Metlar-Bodine House Museum, 1281 River Road, Piscataway, NJ. The coast-to-coast roadway, which turned 100 years old in 2013, embodies that uniquely American notion of the free, open highway - the road trip that connects America - where drivers can dip their toes in the Atlantic Ocean at one end of the continent and in the Pacific Ocean at the other. In a time when drivers zip across the country on interstates, the Lincoln Highway is a throw-back to an era when people traveled at a slower pace. Mr. Pavelec is a local author who has written extensively about the history of our region. In the early 1990s, he was editor and feature writer for Omnibus Magazine, a bi-monthly publication of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, distributed to 100,000 New Jersey commuters. Many of his articles dealt with the historical aspect of travel and commerce in the NY-NJ metropolitan area. He also co-authored The Jersey Game, a history of baseball focused on its birth and growth in the Garden State, published by Rutgers University Press. He is co-founder of Gillespie & Pavelec Advertising Agency, located in Princeton, NJ. He resides with his family in Kingston, NJ.