We left Columbus early this morning. Yesterday we traveled on a portion of the old National Highway, one of the first public improvement projects in the U.S. It started in Cumberland, Maryland, and ran across the Appalachian Mountains. From Columbus to Indianapolis we were on I-70, a public improvement program of monumental scale started during the Eisenhower administration.
In Springfield we visited Lincoln’s house. The National Park Service had a great visitors’ center, and the rangers were knowledgeable and courteous as usual. It was during President Lincoln’s tenure that the Transcontinental Railroad was planned, land grant colleges were formed, the Homestead Act was passed, and, of course, the Union was preserved.
Just in case you forgot, Lincoln was the first Republican president.
I hope to report from somewhere in Kansas tomorrow night.
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