- "Getting Around." Centenarians ed.
Bernard Edelman. New York: Farrar, 1999.
- Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. Travel Literature. Pic of the
Month. (August 1996).
[http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/pic/96.aug.html]
Is it a national holiday or cultural
celebration?
Strategies for American Memory
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- Appelbaum, Diana Karter. Thanksgiving; An American Holiday,
an American History. New York: Facts on File, 1984. 217-231.
- U.S. Department of Labor. "The History of Labor Day"
[http://www.dol.gov/dol/opa/public/aboutdol/laborday.htm]
- Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.Valentine Postcard. Pic of
the Month (February 1996)
- Research ethnic or religious holidays like Cinco de Mayo,
Chinese New Year, Christmas and Hanukkah.
- Read Entertaining
at Glenmont (Edison's home)
[http://www.nps.gov/edis/entglen.htm]
- Read this exerpt from the story An
Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, 1881.
Are you going to a world's fair or an
amusement park?
Do you want to do something outdoors? In a
wilderness area, the desert or the Grand Canyon?
Are you coming to the United States as an
immigrant?
Are you leaving to see the world?
Plan the route and method of transportation
- Transportation and
Communication Maps
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/trnshome.html}
Includes transportation and communication systems on the national, state, and local level
(e.g. canal and river systems, cycling routes, railway lines and systems, roads and road
networks, and traffic patterns).
- Railroad Maps,
1828-1900
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html]
These railroad maps for every state can be searched by geographic region
Are you going by automobile?
Are you going by train?
- California State Railroad Museum:
Locomotives
[http://www.csrmf.org/locomotives.html]
- California State Railroad Museum: Passenger
cars
[http://www.csrmf.org/cars.html]
- McCully, Emily Arnold. An Outlaw Thanksgiving. New York: Dial,
1998.
A picture book about a railroad trip across the US, based on a true incident of a
Thanksgiving banquet given in Brown's Hole, Utah, in the 1890's by Butch Cassidy and his
gang.
- 1912 Southern Pacific, Western Pacific and Santa Fe railroad schedules. Museum of
the City of San Francisco.
[http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/skeds.html]
Are you traveling locally?

© Debbie
Abilock August 22, 1999-2004