I knew long ago that I would be attending the 2024 Jefferson Highway Association Conference in Alexandria, LA, but only recently decided to also join the pre-conference sociability run. The first day of my expressway-centered drive to the start of the run had been posted and updates from the run and the conference will follow. The journal is here.
I had never heard of US-70 in Tennessee being called “The Broadway of Tennessee. I was born in Goldsboro, NC, which is on US-70 as well.
I don’t know when that mural was originally done but it was repainted in 2018 after country singer Craig Morgan bought the building.