Not very creative.

The county library system has six children's books about the history of the U.S. interstate highway system.

I checked them out to see if any were good enough to qualify as "living books" for 20th century American history.

Here are four of the six titles:

• From Trails to Turnpikes
• Eastern Trails:  From Footpaths to Turnpikes
• From Trails to Superhighways:  The Story of America's Roads
• From Path to Highway:  The Story of the Boston Post Road

Four different publishers, four different authors.

(The last two are pretty good, by the way.  FTTS:TSOAR, a Messner edition, has some terribly dated language about Native Americans and only takes us 2/3 of the way through the construction of the interstate system, but I know how to work around both those problems. FPTH:TSOTBPR, aimed at younger readers, is by the always excellent Gail Gibbons.)

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[Dorian Speed]

I am feeling a little postapocalyptic this morning, and so I wonder if there will someday be "From Trails to Superhighways and Back Again."