Beast of Main Street

<p><em>Beast of Main Street</em> is a dazzling original angle on how ordinary people are living in Covid times. Meet people on America's Main Street talking about love loss and the meaning of life in a pandemic.</p><p>   Join award-winning journalist Michael Sean Comerford as he bicycles along the fabled Route 66. It's a 2500-mile ride from Chicago to Los Angeles into a deadly pandemic surge claiming more than one million lives.</p><p>   Comerford talks to people who rely on religion folk wisdom conspiracies and science to survive. He finds compassion and life-affirming stories are contagious too.</p><p>   The ride is touched by adventure as he overcomes snow storms and five bicycle breakdowns while crossing Illinois Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Texas New Mexico Arizona and California.</p><p>   View more than 100 people videotaped for the YouTube channel <em>The Story Cycle</em> edited by the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.</p><p>   It's a spectacular ride to capture the spirit of a pandemic.</p><p>   Let's ride!</p>