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Guidebooks as Community Service

In 1953, George Stewart, an English literature professor at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, crossed the United States on U.S. Highway 40. He drove the entire width of the United States, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California. Along the way, he took snapshots of visual clues to the local cultural and so cial life that he observed—all this, just as U.S. 40 was about to be replaced by Interstate 70. For the 90 most intriguing sites that he photographed, Stewart then did on-site and library research. In the resulting book, U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (Stewart 1953), each two-page spread presents one of Stewart's snap shots, and on the remaining page and a half, a cogent essay interpreting what he saw in the picture. The essays are grouped into regional chapters, each introduced with a longer essay discussing general historical and cultural themes and introducing the new physiographic and cultural regions. For this, and much other geo graphical writing, the Association of American Geographers gave Stewart an honor award.