For you folks who plan to attend the Route 66 Festival in Flagstaff, Ariz., Northern Arizona University is hosting the “Route 66 in Arizona: Don’t Forget Winona!” exhibit that opens that week.
According to the Rim Country Gazette, the university’s Cline Library will hold a reception from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10.
“The exhibit shows the interplay between Route 66 and the communities in Arizona through which it passes,” explains Sean Evans, curator and Cline Library archivist.
Designed to take people on a visual journey of the historic highway, the exhibit’s vintage photography, postcards, maps, signs, old car parts and a chunk of Route 66 asphalt, bring the “Mother Road” to life in the library’s second floor Special Collections and Archives area. […]
The exhibit is organized to show how the road affected Flagstaff, trading posts and culture throughout Arizona. It establishes the importance of “the highway that is the best” with a case brimming with Route 66 publications from around the world. One display case is dedicated to people who have helped preserve Route 66 history. Video interviews with these people are available through the library.
The exhibit will be on display through August 2010. Much of the exhibit also will be online on the university’s Colorado Plateau Digital Archives. Do a “Route 66” search there, and you’ll find hundreds of items.
UPDATE: The library now has a fresh link to the “Route 66 in Arizona: Don’t Forget Winona” exhibit.