Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Indiana to Ohio.
This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 70 east from Richmond, Indiana to Columbus, Ohio. It runs for 80 minutes in five segments and offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and—especially—stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.
As we travel the eastern section of this route, we’ll see a lot of corn. This is nothing new. Native Americans grew corn long before settlers arrived. For settlers, too, corn became a staple which they consumed in many forms. As we drive this route today, the corn we see is mostly field corn used for animal feed—in this area hogs and pigs are the primary consumers. But then we are, once corn is converted into pork, ham and bacon.
When we pass to the north of Dayton, we’ll go by Huffman Prairie where the Wright Brothers refined their flying machine after its initial success at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The thing about that first flight: the plane shouldn’t have flown. Computer simulations show it to have been virtually uncontrollable. So how was it that these unlikely prospects—bicycle mechanics, minister’s sons who didn’t even possess college degrees—how did they became first in flight, in an airplane that shouldn’t have flown?
As we approach Columbus, we’ll enter the hometown of the world’s first fast food chain. When established, the primary item on the menu was a 5-cent hamburger. Back then most middle class American’s didn’t eat ground meat because they didn’t trust what might be in it. The challenge: convince people that this ground meat was safe and appealing. So they chose a name for the chain that suggested purity and cleanliness. Another challenge was to convince consumers that this was not a fly-by-night operation. They did this with both a name and architecture that suggested stability. Can you guess the name? (Hint: it’s still going strong today.)
1-70 EAST: RICHMOND, INDIANA TO COLUMBUS, OHIO
Author/Spoken: Bruce T. Marshall
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Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Indiana to Ohio.
This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 70 east from Richmond, Indiana to Columbus, Ohio. It runs for 80 minutes in five segments and offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and—especially—stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.
As we travel the eastern section of this route, we’ll see a lot of corn. This is nothing new. Native Americans grew corn long before settlers arrived. For settlers, too, corn became a staple which they consumed in many forms. As we drive this route today, the corn we see is mostly field corn used for animal feed—in this area hogs and pigs are the primary consumers. But then we are, once corn is converted into pork, ham and bacon.
When we pass to the north of Dayton, we’ll go by Huffman Prairie where the Wright Brothers refined their flying machine after its initial success at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The thing about that first flight: the plane shouldn’t have flown. Computer simulations show it to have been virtually uncontrollable. So how was it that these unlikely prospects—bicycle mechanics, minister’s sons who didn’t even possess college degrees—how did they became first in flight, in an airplane that shouldn’t have flown?
As we approach Columbus, we’ll enter the hometown of the world’s first fast food chain. When established, the primary item on the menu was a 5-cent hamburger. Back then most middle class American’s didn’t eat ground meat because they didn’t trust what might be in it. The challenge: convince people that this ground meat was safe and appealing. So they chose a name for the chain that suggested purity and cleanliness. Another challenge was to convince consumers that this was not a fly-by-night operation. They did this with both a name and architecture that suggested stability. Can you guess the name? (Hint: it’s still going strong today.)
1-70 EAST: RICHMOND, INDIANA TO COLUMBUS, OHIO
Author/Spoken: Bruce T. Marshall
Presented to you by: click to see more from this Presenter
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