Slanina, a children's book author, has traveled Route 66 for 19 years, and was one of five authors invited to the festival to ...

Karla Vasquez Mejia is the development reporter for The Edwardsville Intelligencer. She is a graduate of Webster University ...

"I want to see America the way it used to be," said transportation reporter Jerry Carnes of his road trip along Route 66, from Chicago to Santa Monica, California.