Saturday, November 9 at 12:00 pm
Joe Hurley, author
of Ten Million Steps on Route 6: A Fresh
Look at America and Americans from Cape Cod to California, is a
retired newspaper reporter who spent most of his career at The News-Times in Danbury, Conn.
where, among other things, he wrote the consumer-humor column called Shallow
Pockets.
In 1999,
Joe came to the startling realization that he
knew almost nothing about the other side of the state, even though Connecticut is small enough to fit in the back pocket of Colorado or Nebraska.
That year, photographer David Harple and
Joe walked
across Connecticut
on Route 6 to give News-Times readers, and themselves, a better picture of
their home state.
Later,
Joe noticed that Route 6 stretched all the way
to California
– it was one of the few coast-to-coast highways and remains the longest
continuous highway in the country. After retiring,
Joe
walked that 3,600-mile road while photographer Travis Lindhorst traveled along
in the comfort of a car. Their stories and pictures ran weekly in a dozen
newspapers across the country. The book resulted from their adventures. You can
check out Joe’s website at: http://route6walk.com/
Joe is pretty much a homebody, writing occasional
magazine stories, attempting to play basketball with other old guys, and
promising his wife Pat that he'll get after the forsythia bushes tomorrow.
Books will be available for sale
and signing.
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