Remembering Main Street: An American Album Book

These evocative biographies of ten still-authentic towns will delight preservationists, travel and Americana buffs, and all who have a fondness for American social history and popular culture. Pat Ross grew up in Main Street America, and here she returns to explore how Main Street itself grew up - commercially, culturally, and architecturally. By investigating the histories of the corner drugstore or courthouse, for example, or by profiling local merchants, artists, and town legends - both heroes and scoundrels - the author evokes the special spirit of these towns, showing how each represents some phase of American history and how each has weathered adversity and given new life to its economy.