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UNKNOWN
July 2014
On Sale: July 11, 2014
ISBN: 0988900432
EAN: 9780988900431
Kindle: B00LPAA50Y
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Non-Fiction Memoir
When Lou Schell and her husband Fletcher first read Charles
Kuralt’s America back in the late 1990s, the two were
captivated by the stories of his travels, the variety of
small towns he visited, and the fascinating people he met
along the way.
The Schells began planning their own dream trip: a
year-long odyssey tracing Kuralt’s route around the country,
visiting his favorite U.S. locations during their most
scenic seasons. They would spend time in each town he’d
chronicled, perhaps even meeting some of the characters he’d
described so vividly. Fletcher’s sudden death put an end to
that dream for awhile, yet Lou couldn’t shake the feeling
that this was a trip she was supposed to take. At the age of
seventy-nine, Lou Schell gathered her children together one
Sunday afternoon to announce she would be spending the next
year traveling America—and she would be spending their
inheritance to do it. Her children’s response? “Go for it.”
While Lou began the trip with her sister Janie, Janie
was unable to complete the trip. Undaunted, Lou continued on
alone. For the next year, she drove from city to city,
staying a full month in each location so she could fully
experience its culture, people, food, and ambiance. She took exacting notes and lots
of photographs. In the pages of Revisiting America you’ll
join Lou as she shares snacks with Iggy the Iguana in Key
West, dines at the Fat Hen restaurant in Charleston, and
takes an intrepid stroll across a mile-high swinging bridge
in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. You will also get to
eavesdrop as she makes friends from New Orleans to Taos, and
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to Ketchikan, Alaska, ultimately
proving to everyone who hears her story that it’s never too
late to follow your dream.
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