Saturday,
November 24, 2001
Tristate A.M.
Report
Man
takes firetruck on road for Lincoln
RAWLINS, Wyo. A Galion, Ohio,
man who drove a firetruck in President Bush's inaugural parade
has taken his show on the road to honor Abraham Lincoln.
Craig Harmon, founder and
director of the Lincoln Highway National Museum and Archives,
has not chosen just any road, however. He has been driving his
adorned, 1964 Maxim truck along Lincoln Highway, the first
transcontinental highway in the country.
The highway, also known as U.S.
30 and Interstate 80, stretches 3,331 miles from Times Square
in New York to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. This month Mr.
Harmon has been passing through southern Wyoming and stopping
in towns along the way.
The Lincoln Highway's come of
age, Mr. Harmon said in Rawlins on Tuesday.
In each town where he stops,
Mr. Harmon raises his firetruck ladder to fly a 10-by-20-foot
American flag and a flag commemorating Lincoln Highway. Since
Cheyenne, he has also displayed a Union Pacific flag on the
ladder.
In the inaugural parade, Mr.
Harmon's truck carried famed major league baseball players
Steve Garvey and Johnny Bench, Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton
and Miss America 2001 Angela-Perez Baraquio.
Mr. Harmon began his road trip
in New York last year and plans to be in San Francisco before
Christmas.
Mr. Harmon wants to make the
highway the centerpiece of a Lincoln bicentennial celebration
that will take place in 2009. He also wants to collect 10
million Lincoln pennies to build a 30-ton, 7-foot statue of
Lincoln, the nation's 16th president.
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