The Lost Continent Bill Bryson Presented by Danielle Zeigler
Slide 2Amalgam: The Perfect Town Based on the background of towns in TV appears from his youth Never experienced it through the course of adolescence street trips Surely existed some place, however This impeccable spot must exist in our country so connected to residential community goals.
Slide 3Change & Sense of Loss Cannot ever go home again At slightest, not the home recollected Businesses gone Empty parcels Grass in walkway splits People driving 30 miles for a chunk of bread
Slide 4Road Trip Observations
Slide 5Midwesterners Directions indispensable âInnate should be orientedâ âEuropean urban areas, with their meandering boulevards and undisciplined rear ways, drive Midwesterners for all intents and purposes insaneâ (15).
Slide 6Disappointment in Small Towns Used to be a corner store and Dairy Queen, perhaps a motel, on the edges of town Now, a mile or a greater amount of fast-food spots, markdown urban areas and shopping centers, all encompassed by monstrous parking garages and no walkways âThe town had no middle. It had been eaten by shopping mallsâ (46).
Slide 7Billboards âIn spots like Iowa and Kansas they spoke the truth the main incitement you gotâ (49). More established bulletins far better than those of today. 3-dimensional components Coming fascination promoted with signs each few miles Often embellished with intriguing quotes and data, as larger than usual postcards Now, essentially demonstrate the fascination and bearings
Slide 8Daylight Savings Time States go their own particular course in such manner âIt made you understand to what a degree the United States is truly fifty autonomous countriesâ (53). Arizona
Slide 9South Often see a white personâs pleasant house right adjacent to a dark personâs shack That would never happen in the North. Unexpected, considering the past relations Voices from the North on Southern radio Indirectness and gradualness make Southern discourse special
Slide 10Almost Amalgam Columbus, Mississippi about accomplished flawlessness Savannah, Georgia and Chestertown, Maryland likewise about his optimal Cooperstown, New York additionally close, however an excess of visitors Began to understand that he would never think that its all in one piece âI would need to gather it piecemealâa courthouse here, a flame station thereâ (67).
Slide 11College Towns âOnly puts in America to join advantages of residential area pace of existence with enormous city sophisticationâ (71) Nice bars and eateries Interesting shops Worldly air Feeling of youth and essentialness
Slide 12Warm Springs, Georgia Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed on there Path prompting the Little White House lined with rocks from each state Some cut fit as a state\'s fiddle, buffed and engraved Others simply âfeatureless hunksâ What will the state quarter of Kansas resemble?
Slide 13Hotels Bryson gets by and by irritated by the inns in Savannah, Georgia. Lovely old structures scattered with monstrous solid chain inns Ruin the state of mind and mood accomplished in a few urban communities
Slide 14Idea of Vacation âNot to open yourself to a minute of distress or inconvenienceâindeed, not to inhale natural air if possibleâ (94). RVs like life-emotionally supportive networks on haggles are travelers fat and dress like blockheads?
Slide 15Appalachia Beautiful view Why havenât urban experts ran to this territory of magnificence? Rather, it is occupied by the really bankrupted. White individuals living in neediness Also found in spots like the Smoky Mountains and Vermont
Slide 16Gettysburg âIt is a compassion, skirting on the criminal, that such a large amount of the town of Gettysburg has been ruined with traveler tat and that it is so unmistakable from the battlefieldâ (132). Fortification Hays in Hays, Kansas
Slide 17Tourism in Amish Towns Fascination with Amish lifestyle causes millions to come and ogle Non-Amish representatives built up visitor stops that the Amish can\'t even disparage Tourists left to take photos of one another since the Amish never come to town any longer
Slide 18Nebraska Football No âfair playâ in Cornhusker vocabulary âThe University of Nebraska would send in flamethrowers on the off chance that it were allowedâ (208). Sitting amidst Nebraska fans is a terrifying background, âparticularly when you think about that as a considerable measure of them must work at the Strategic Air Command in Omaha. In the event that Iowa State ever vexed Nebraska, I wouldnât be at all astonished on the off chance that they nuked Ames.â
Slide 19Kansas The Quintessential American State Home of Dorothy and Superman Place where individuals still say âby gollyâ and âgee whillikersâ Visiting Great Bend was similar to going through a period twist Between Great Bend and Dodge City, individuals quit wearing shoes and baseball hats and begin wearing boots and cowpoke caps
Slide 20Santa Fe âToo rich and lovely for wordsâ (229) Oldest constantly possessed city in America, established in 1610 Everything made of adobe Not only a front for the visitors, either Simply the indigenous building material Savannah inns could take a lesson
Slide 21United States in General
Slide 22Compartmentalization No business exercises inside a national park Unrestrained improvement outside, despite the fact that the view is pretty much as excellent âAmerica has never entirely gotten a handle on that you can live in a spot without making it revolting, that excellence doesnât must be kept behind fencesâ (95).
Slide 23Compartmentalization, cont. Smithsonian now has everything arranged and composed into its set spot National Air and Space Museum No feeling of revelation or component of shock Clinical and deadened
Slide 24Genuineness and Ugliness âThere was simply cutting edge business squalorâshopping focuses, corner stores, motels. Sometimes there would be a white church or clapboard motel standing disjointedly amidst Burger Kings and Texacos. In any case, a long way from conciliating the grotesqueness, it just heightened it, reminding you what had been discarded for the purpose of drive-through burgers and shoddy gasolineâ (156).
Slide 25The American Way Little space for assumption Donât safeguard the past for its own particular purpose Past loved just the length of there is cash and advanced accommodations in it House from the motion picture Paper Moon
Slide 26Food for Thought Which is more awful, to lead an existence so exhausting that you are effectively charmed or an existence so loaded with jolt that you are effortlessly exhausted?
Slide 27Tourism Discussion Good or awful? What will make it succeed in Rural America? Would it be better for a few towns to simply quit and concede rout in the skirmish o