In 2004, Doug Levitt started a journey that would change his life forever. He traveled on Greyhound buses and met people who were struggling to get by. He was inspired by the people he met and decided to write songs and stories about them. Doug traveled via Greyhound buses for eight years. He also took thousands of pictures. He compiled the songs, pictures and stories he wrote and called them "The Greyhound Diaries. "The Greyhound Diaries" has attracted media attention. Doug has been featured on "Fox News" and "CNN." Doug traveled over 100,000 miles during his eight-year journey. About Doug Levitt Doug Levitt is a singer, writer, photographer and activist. He was born and raised in Washington D.C. At the age of 16, Doug's father died. Doug
Joe Rosato is a tour guide and Liaison for volunteers on the Board of Directors of The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation located in Holmdel, NJ. He has volunteered at the memorial since 2007. Joe enlisted in the U.S Navy from his hometown of Brooklyn, NY on Dec. 7, 1966 (25th anniversary of Pearl Harbor). His basic training was at The U.S. Submarine Training Center in New London, CT. He ended up his enlistment in the Navy by serving in the Vietnam War at Yankee Station (Gulf of Tonkin) in 1968 as a Helmsman and Lee Helmsman aboard the aircraft carrier USS America CVA-66.
While going to the location dispatch had sent him, he picked up his second, and unknowingly last, fare for the night (Cole 2020). The man had requested a to be brought to an intersection of Washington and Maple, in the Presidio Heights neighborhood (Cole 2020). After recording the entry into his logbook and starting the meter, Paul began the journey to that destination (Cole 2020).
February 15th, 1803 John Augustus Sutter was born in Kandern, Baden. A few miles from the Switzerland border where he will spend his childhood. Since he was born in Germany, John was given the title of German-born Swiss pioneer. Sutter worked as an apprentice to a good handful of book writers and newspaper printers, until he figured that he had no passion for writing nor printing. Working a clerk position at a draper 's store, Sutter caught a glance of Annette D’beld.
On September 12,1818 on a large plantation in Hertford County,N.C. Richard J. Gatling was born. Working with his father they perfected machines to sow cotton and thin cotton plants. At the age 15 Richard started working in the county clerk 's office,he worked there until the age 19. Richard then taught school briefly,and then became a merchant.
Lucreitta Mott was born on January 3rd of 1793, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In addition to being a religious reformer and slavery abolitionist, Mott was also a women's rights activist, who played a crucial role the first wave of feminism. One of her most notable achievements was her participation, along with Elizabeth Stanton, in the Seneca Falls convention. In 1848, both Motts and Stanton called together the Seneca Falls convention. This conference addressed Women's issues, specifically the social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women.
Dave Roever On October 16th 2015, Dave Roever came to Margaretta High school. He told us about what had happened when he was in war and all of his other experiences in his life. He also told us about how we are his favorite school to come to because we gave him our football the night of the homecoming game, where we only lost by one point. He also wants us to know that everybody is loved by someone and we should always know that. He also told us that we should always treat everybody with respect because we never really know what they have been through or what they are currently going through.
He shared the stories of a wide variety of people while he embarked on a journey across the country in a short bus. By revealing the common issues and judgment within society, Jonathon’s book advocated for the people who have any sort of disability, and he brought to light the beauty of each difference. For those who would want to learn about the thoughts and feelings of people who have experienced rejection because of a label, Jonathon Mooney’s book would be an excellent selection because of the real accounts and stories. The book offered an emotional connection that other texts could not provide. Therefore, The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal should be a common read for everyone in order to learn about the real accounts of people labeled as having learning
On indie rock band The Hang Ups' album "So We Go", the last song is called "Greyhound Bus". Creedence Clearwater Revival mention Greyhound in their 1969 song, "Lodi". Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind" from the "Turnstiles" album, released on May 19, 1976, refers to taking "a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line. "[118] The stage musical Violet, like the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" on which it is based, follows the title character on a Greyhound Bus trip from Spruce Pine, North Carolina to Tulsa, Oklahoma and back.
Not too much longer after that she did indeed spot something, an old bus that we could use to get us to the windy city. It was an old school bus to be exact, and it ran. So ALL ABOARD for Chicago and the Windy City. When we got there we did mostly site seeing, after all we had a bus and we could go anywhere We wanted in it.
The Interstate Highway is a form of transportation that we use almost every day. The Interstate Highway was a result of Dwight Eisenhower's decision to improve America's main roads and to create a possible escape route in the case of a nuclear bomb during the cold war. The existing roads at the time were low quality and dangerous for those driving on them, causing many issues for the Government and a lot of pressure on the acting president, Dwight Eisenhower. In the summer of 1919, Dwight Eisenhower was living wife and son 1500 miles from Denver.
“Why don’t you drive further?” said Miss Lantry. “We’ll be late.” Richard stood up in the cab and looked around. He saw a stream of cabs and wagons and everything else on wheels rolling toward the corner where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street meet.
Dropping my backpack onto the sizzling seat, I lowered myself to the floor of the bus, part for shade from the early June sun, part to avoid having to say my goodbyes. Reaching into my pocket, I found my phone and a tangled pair of earbuds with wires frayed from daily use. As the school bus rolled out from the parking lot for the last time, I placed the headphones in my ears and tapped play. Closing my eyes as the bus hopped over a pothole, I was blind and deaf to the world around me. The first night, I spent an hour on Amazon searching for curtains.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round," my 4th grade class, from Blackberry Creek Elementary, sang on the bus. We were on our way to the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. My friends and I were talking about how fun it will be. I was looking forward to enjoying the beautiful weather while studying plants and animals. Carson was thinking it would be boring because he would rather be indoors.
Sarah Naismith English 3 AP 2nd Period March 8, 2018 Jack Kerouac and The Beat Generation World War Ⅱ impacted American society in many and varied ways. However, there was one shining light in the forest of darkness and depression, The Beat Generation. No one could ever have guessed that a group of men could have created one of the most iconic cultural rebellion in American history for decades to come. The Beat Generation started out with only four people the iconic Jack Kerouac, his best friend and novel inspiration Neal Cassady, the older but wiser William S. Burroughs, and Kerouac’s other close friend and writer of Howl a piece of poetry that first shaped the culture of the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s Allen Ginsberg.
So when I boarded the bus that December evening in Montgomery Alabama, I was exhausted from work and ready to go home. I recognized the bus driver because he had once pushed me off the bus, just because I came through the front door. Even remembering that experience, I still stepped on the bus and paid my fare. "Good evening sir," I said to