Route 66 is focus of travel series film, part two of filmmaker's "romance with the road"
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World Travel Series presents "Route 66 Part II" April 4, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for this general admission event. One child is admitted free with each adult ticket purchased. This event is part of the 2008-09 Lake Shore Savings Season.
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This is a World Travel Series event sponsored by Fredonia Place.
A few years ago, Charles and Margaret Hartman introduced audiences to the legendary roadway with “Route 66 ─ A Road to Remember.” And in sharing that journey with audiences coast to coast, the Hartmans found the film touched a nostalgic chord with a lot of people. This time they offer a look at the “return trip,” heading back east.
Presenting and narrating the film will be Russell Muntz. He is standing in for Mr. Hartman during the months of March and April while Mr. Hartman recovers from a recent illness.
While Mr. Hartman’s first film on Route 66 – which he presented at Rockefeller Arts Center in November 2002 – took viewers from east to west, “Route 66 Part II: The Romance of the Road” starts in California and heads back east to Chicago.
“Everything looks different when you are going the other way,” Mr. Hartman noted, and so does this road trip film. It looks at different places and has a different focus.
When Mr. Hartman made the first film on Route 66, he thought the highway would soon be faded away and gone forever as it had been de-commissioned.
“We figured we were tracing the remains of a historic highway that would soon be just a memory,” Mr. Hartman said.
“But this time, we were delighted to find, the old road has shown an amazing refusal to die away. With the growth of a national interest in historic preservation came an act of Congress, the National Historic Highway Act, to designate a few of our nation’s old roads as ‘historically significant.’ And Route 66, as our single most famous 20th Century highway, led the way. There is a ‘Romance of the Road,’ particularly this road.”
Highlights include the International Hot-Air Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the “Cadillac Ranch” near Amarillo, Texas; Oklahoma City’s inspiring renaissance and a side trip to the Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Project near Bartlesville, Oklahoma ─ 37,000 acres of lush, resurgent prairie and its herd of nearly 2,000 North American Bison.
Tickets will be available at the door for this general admission event. One child is admitted free with each adult ticket purchased. This event is part of the 2008-09 Lake Shore Savings Season.
