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The Music Village

You know how you feel an unexplained modify in energy when you cross a land line or a huge torso of water? I felt that leaving Ohio and crossing into Indiana. Some of that was because of its own familiarity (I've been based out of Chicago for the last several years and have driven some of these sections earlier), but I truly recollect there's a shift in how the Lincoln Highway's route changes. I'thousand grouping Indiana and Suburban Chicago (aka "Chicagoland") together, non considering filling out a blog post, but because the route in this bespeak has its own "feel", and once y'all get outside of Chicagoland, the experience changes again.

Once you become outside of Fort Wayne, there are two completely dissimilar routes that you can have through the the state of Indiana. Both routes are recognized by the Lincoln Highway Clan, and each has their own charm. I took the 1913 route since this is the Centennial of the route mostly, but did drive parts of the concluding road alignment from the late 20'due south. I will be honest, the signage along either route is not great, and I often got lost driving around these parts. The road recently acquired a "National Byway" status, and I hope that the signage in these parts does modify quickly.  In the meantime, there are plough-past-plow guides you tin see on the Indiana Affiliate's website, and I strongly recommend using them. The road becomes ane unified route in Valparasio, and then it more often than not follows US thirty until the edge. One time you cantankerous into Illinois, the signage becomes much better for the route, and you can hands bulldoze the Lincoln without additional help. At that place's some major old roads that intersect with the Lincoln Highway of notation, and those are the Dixie Highway and Route 66. There's some neat things at these intersections, which you will meet in the Photo Gallery below.

I did iii performances in Indiana and in Chicagoland, and each 1 went very well. My performance at The Music Village in South Bend was probably the most memorable one. This organization is "a community musical arts brotherhood, that celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse local and global communities in the center of downtown South Curve, Indiana. This is a place where immature and quondam, beginners and advanced players, and people from various cultures and traditions come together to create music, feel trip the light fantastic toe and learn from each other." I really had a wonderful time performing there , and would honey to perform there again. If you lot alive in the area, I would definitely cheque out what they have to offer.

And now what you've all been waiting for, here'southward a few pictures from this stretch of the route I thought I'd share with yous. I'll be talking about the rest of Illinois in my next post. Relish!

Original brick stretch of road simply outside Ligonier, Indiana.

Here's a closeup of the brick. I accept to admit, I love the colors in this stretch of the road.

1 of the few Indiana Lincoln Highway Signs y'all'll see along the route, this one is establish in Goshen, Indiana.

Great former sign and building in downtown Goshen.

Ane of the most interesting buildings forth the 1913 route is this police berth in Goshen. It was congenital in 1939 to protect the two nearby banks from possible bandits that traveled the road. John Dillinger and his gang did rob banks forth the road, but non in Goshen itself.

This is the Elkhart County Courthouse, which is right next to the police booth.

Meet Zoey, my youngest fan and then far this tour!

In 1923, the "Platonic Section" was the most advanced 1.3 miles of road in the world. This "seedling mile" was hailed as a vision of the future with four lanes of pavement, streetlights, landscaping, and underground drainage.

The dream for this "Ideal Section" evidently became true, for it is now what see all over the The states. The ironic part in all of this is that the monument that dedicates this section is in such a busy department of the road, you accept to exist extremely careful when photographing it.

Hither's what the Ideal Section looks similar today.

Particular of a bridge in Dyer, Indiana.

More detail of the bridge in Dyer, Indiana.

The Arche Memorial Fountain (built 1916) tin can be plant where the Dixie and Lincoln Highways intersect in Chicago Heights, Illinois. This intersection has often been referred to every bit the "Crossroads of the Nation".

Dixie Highway signs are visible, but less common than Lincoln Highway signs in these parts. The Dixie is known as IL Country Route 1 in these parts.

Hither y'all can come across the Lincoln Highway sign likewise every bit a sculpture with Abraham Lincoln correct in forepart of the CVS.

Almost every corner at this intersection has something, and this includes a lovely Veterans Memorial.

The Joliet Area Historical Museum has peachy local exhibits and exhibits on both the "Mother" and "Father" roads.

The Museum is located in an old church, which has preserved some of the original stained drinking glass windows.

Here'due south some other window; this i was and so shut you could attain out and touch information technology.

Part of the Lincoln Highway Exhibit in the Joliet Museum

An Old Gas Pump marks where Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway meet.

For three/10 of a mile in Plainfield, Illinois, Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway are the same route.

This old camping shelter in Aurora, Illinois was a stop for travelers along the road in the 1920s.

Equally more people traveled beyond the Lincoln, more and more than people camped. To proceed the camping under control, these shelters were built. Fireplaces similar this ane were very common.

Sign directing travelers to the shelter.

This building was directly beyond from the camping ground shelter. Information technology looks like it was about recently a Mexican market, but I'm guessing information technology was either a gas station or grocery store long ago when people traveled the highway.

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