BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220823T000000Z DTEND:20220823T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Beyond Fiction Book Club - The Vagabonds by Jeff Guinn DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, The Vagabonds by Jeff Guinn. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk. If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Kelly Kuningas at kkuningas@wauclib.org. \n\nWe look forward to reading and discussing with you!\n\n \n\nA "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist) the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life.\n\n\n\nIn 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford\, Edison\, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925\, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on.\n\n\n\nAlthough the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs\, butlers\, and others\, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America's roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive\, and as cars and roads improved\, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life.\n\n\n\nThe Vagabonds is "a portrait of America's burgeoning love affair with the automobile" (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford\, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford's reputation\, even as Edison's diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape\, the American economy\, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.\n\n\n\nTO REGISTER CLICK HERE X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us to discuss this month'\;s Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, \;The Vagabonds \;by Jeff Guinn. \; \;Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk. \; If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Kelly Kuningas at kkuningas@wauclib.org. \; \;

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A &ldquo\;fascinating slice of rarely considered American history&rdquo\; (Booklist)&mdash\;the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison&mdash\;whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life.
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\nIn 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford\, Edison\, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925\, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on.
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\nAlthough the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs\, butlers\, and others\, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America&rsquo\;s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive\, and as cars and roads improved\, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life.
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\nThe Vagabonds \;is &ldquo\;a portrait of America&rsquo\;s burgeoning love affair with the automobile&rdquo\; (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford\, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford&rsquo\;s reputation\, even as Edison&rsquo\;s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape\, the American economy\, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.
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\nTO REGISTER CLICK HERE

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