The USA from a Chevrolet

<p> In July 1965 an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet Biscayne rolled off a General Motors assembly line. Little did James Ward know that this car would become a cherished member of his family playing a role in his wedding honeymoon years of graduate school birth of his daughter and her wedding among countless other memories. Four decades--and a lot of history--later the author still drives this rolling historical artifact dubbed Phoebe.</p><p> Using the Biscayne as a narrative thread this first-person account explores facets of American history the author and Phoebe experienced since the mid-1960s such as a KKK cross-burning a civil rights march Hurricane Betsy numerous local diners motels and parks and interesting people and out-of-the-way places. Looking for remnants of their youth they drove across back roads in twenty-first century America. Photographs accompany this unique memoir.</p>