Conferences at Route 66 festival will be streamed live

A series of speeches for a two-day conference called “Route 66 Crossroads of the Past and Future” will be streamed over the Internet live on Friday and Saturday during the International Route 66 Festival in Kingman, Arizona, it was announced Wednesday.

The video stream will be on Mohave County’s official channel on YouTube. In addition, the presentations will be posted on the channel after the festival.

So, if you can’t attend, the videos will likely be the next-best thing to being there.

Here is the schedule of speakers, so set your calendars if there is someone in particular you want to hear:

Friday, Aug. 15

• 8:30 a.m., Michael Wallis, Route 66 Alliance
• 9 a.m., Ron Hart, Route 66 Chamber of Commerce
• 9:30 a.m., Sharlene Fouser, Arizona Route 66 Association
• 10 a.m., Kaisa Barthuli, Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program
• 10:30 a.m., Sean Evans, Northern Arizona University archivist
• 11 a.m., Ed Klein, Route 66 World
• 1 p.m., Richard Mouer, Route 66 bicycle corridor development
• 1:30 p.m., Nick Gerlich, bicycle tourism
• 2 p.m., James Thole, Route 66 Association of Missouri
• 2:30 p.m., Larry Clounts, Texas Old Route 66 Association
• 3 p.m., Glen Duncan, California Route 66 Association
• 3:30 p.m., a representative from the New Mexico Route 66 Association
• 4 p.m., Renee Charles, Kansas Route 66 Association
• 4:30 p.m., Dries Bessel, Dutch Route 66 Association

Saturday, Aug. 16

• 8:30 a.m., Roderick Wilde, Historic Electric Vehicle Association
• 9 a.m., Tudor Melville, Tesla Owners Group
• 9:30 a.m., Jerry Asher, Plugshare
• 10 a.m., Rudy Garcia, EV Station Solutions
• 10:30 a.m., Jim Ross, Route 66 historian
• 11 a.m., Kathleen Smith, Holbrook Chamber of Commerce
• 1 p.m., Kumar Patel, Wigwam Motel
• 1:30 p.m., Scott Piotrowski, Route 66 in Los Angeles historian
• 2 p.m., Roger Naylor, Arizona Route 66 author
• 2:30 p.m., Bob Boze Bell, author
• 3 p.m., Wolfgang Werz, German Route 66 Association
• 3:30 p.m., Zdnek Jurasek, Czech Route 66 Association
• 4 p.m., John Holod, Exploring Route 66 by RV
• 4:30 p.m., Jim Farber, Route 66 exhibit at Autry National Center