Where We Live: Uncovering The Boston Post Road
The Post Road, Past and Present
During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of overland routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Coming up, we’re joined by Eric Jaffe, author of “The King’s Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route that Made America”. He explores the progress of people and culture along the road through four centuries, from its earliest days as the King of England’s “best highway” to today. We’ll visit New Haven where a man is walking the length of the post road, take a drive up in Stonington to uncover the old Post Road mile markers, and get an arborist’s tour of some of the trees planted by a group in Milford aiming to green some of the most commercially developed parts of the road.
Send to friend
Printer-friendly version
Comments
Target audience connected!
My mom's from Bridgeport, my dad's from New Haven, the three of us kids were born in Bridgeport and raised in Branford, and my wife's from Worcester. I can't tell and your guest you how much I enjoyed this book.
(PS Podcasts rule! I missed the original.)
Post new comment