A friend once told me a story about being alone with the Lincolns at Honest Abe’s tomb. As it doesn’t get more American than that, I figured I had to include that anecdote in this column about the Lincoln Highway. Until I discovered a problem. The Lincoln Highway, America’s first paved transcontinental road, which stretches almost 3,400 miles from New York to San Francisco, doesn’t go through Springfield, Illinois. Are you kidding me? You name a highway after Abe, and it doesn’t eve


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