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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Taste of Dixie: 1976 Chevrolet Scottsdale 10

from Greg Phillips in the Florida panhandle:
Dateline:
Dixie Diner in Cross City, Florida.
Escape from Apalachicola found us passing thru Cross City, Fl at breakfast time. Nice old truck with a shiny new paint job.
Cross City, Florida and crosses festooning the restaurant walls. I didn't bother looking to see if Ron Regan, Jr has ever left a signed head shot of himself there.
Route 98 is Florida's version of America's Route 66. Working class Southerners bound for Florida vacations found Motor Court styled accomodations at strategic points along U.S. Highway 98. The Taste of Dixie Diner is just a biscuit's throw from the office and pool of one such place. Not many left these days and a revival of the genre may not be in the cards.


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