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KEVIN J. PATRICK, Ph.D.

ADDRESS:

1193 Street Geography and Regional Planning Department Indiana, 15701 Indiana University of Pennsylvania (724) 467-0789 Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705 [email protected] (724) 357-2500

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1996. Master of Arts in Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1985. Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Glassboro State College, , June 1983.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

FULL PROFESSOR: Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705 August, 1993 - present. Graduate/Dual Level Courses Taught: Thought and Philosophy of Geography, Spatial Structure of the Economy, Urban Geography, Social Geography, Map and Air Photo Interpretation, Geography of Tourism. Courses Taught: Cartography I, Geography of the Non-Western World, Geography of East Asia, Geography of the United States and Canada, Economic Geography, Geography of Pennsylvania, Geography of Wine, Great Lakes Senior Synthesis, Great Lakes Gateway Senior Synthesis, Place Identity and Landscape Meaning Graduate Seminar.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONSULTANT FOR THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY SPECIAL RESOURCE STUDY: National Park Service Contact for Phase I: Beth Savage National Register Program, National Park Service 1201 Eye Street NW, MS 2280, 8th Floor, Room #8 , DC 20005, (202) 354-2220 June 1999 – November 2001 Specific Responsibilities: Research and electronically map at 1:24,000 scale all known routings for the 3,500 mile historic Lincoln Highway, laid out in 1913 from City to San Francisco. Produce The Lincoln Highway Resource Guide, a state-by-state summary of the Lincoln Highway’s historic significance and cultural resources. National Park Service Contact for Phase II: Sandra Washington National Park Service, Midwest Region, 1709 Jackson Street Omaha, NE 68102, (402) 221-3351 November 2001 - June 2003 Specific Responsibilities: Assist in developing and implementing a strategy for training and deploying a Reconnaissance Team to conduct an historic and cultural resource survey of the Lincoln Highway during the Summer of 2002. Build a Lincoln Highway geographic information system using field data from the Reconnaissance Team to analyze and summarize the results of the survey. Write The Lincoln Highway Landscape Interpretation Manual and conduct a seminar to train the Reconnaissance Team. Contribute to the development of policy alternatives for preserving the historic Lincoln Highway to be presented to the House of Representatives.

EDITOR: The Lincoln Highway Forum January 1997 – January 1999 Specific Responsibilities: Produce a copy-ready, fully-illustrated, 32-48 page quarterly journal for the national Lincoln Highway Association. Subscription: 700-1,000.

GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR: History Department, Elon College, Elon College, N.C. January 1991 - July 1993. Courses Taught: World Regional Geography, Geography of U.S. and Canada, Physical Geography

GEOGRAPHY TEACHING FELLOW: Geography Department, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, January 1990 - May 1993. Courses Taught: World Regional Geography, Physical Geography

GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR: History/Political Science Department, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pa. January 1988 - December 1989. Courses Taught: Introduction to Geography, Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Geography of North America

GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR: History Department, Muhlenberg University, Allentown, Pennsylvania, June 1989 - December 1989. Courses Taught: Introduction to Geography.

TRANSPORTATION PLANNER: Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority, Dayton, , November 1985 - August 1987. Specific Responsibilities: Develop and manage transit projects related to passenger amenities, service development, and ridership data collection and reporting. Supervise data collection clerks.

TRANSIT PLANNING INTERN: Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Urbana, Illinois, May 1985 - November 1985. Specific Responsibilities: Perform various duties related to transit operations, including; radio dispatch, and on-street supervision.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Present-2014 Indiana Planning Commission, Vice President 2018-2012 Society for Commercial Archeology Board of Directors. 2017 Society for Commercial Archeology Conference Organization Committee, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2013 Indiana Planning Commissioner, Indiana, Pennsylvania 2012 Society for Commercial Archeology Conference Organization Committee, Wildwood, New Jersey. 2007 Vetted Mike Engle’s and Mario Monti’s book, Diners of New York for Stackpole Books (Mechanicsburg), published in 2008. 1999-2003 National Park Service Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study: Worked as a consultant for the National Park Service to build a geographic information system for the 3,500 mile long Lincoln Highway, research its historical significance and cultural resources, develop and implement a strategy for conducting a transcontinental reconnaissance survey of the Lincoln Highway, and analyze and summarize the results. This resulted in three National Park Service documents: The Lincoln Highway Resource Guide, Lincoln Highway Landscape Interpretation Manual, and The Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study. 2002-2003 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Senate Fellowship Grant: “Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders:” Received a $3,500 grant to research the commercial show caves of Pennsylvania for a book to be published by Stackpole Books in 2004. 2002 Atlas Media Corporation’s Highway Hangouts II: Worked as an on-call consultant for the History Channel’s Highway Hangouts II, produced by Atlas Media Corporation, Spring 2002. 2001 Political Geography Peer Reviewer: Reviewed the article, “Right-Wing Resistance to the Process of American Hegemony: The Changing Political Geography of Nativism in Pennsylvania, 1920-1998,” for Political Geography, January 2001. 2000 Local Arrangements Committee for Association of American Geographers Pittsburgh Conference: Assisted in planning for the national Association of American Geographers annual conference in Pittsburgh, March 2000. Specific responsibilities included co-editing and writing articles for the A.A.G. publication, A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies from Precambrain to Post-Industrial. I also planned and led two geography field trips. 1999 Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor (LHHC) Interpretive Plan: Worked as a consultant for John Milner Associates/Watson Heritage Group on developing an Interpretive Plan for Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor.

Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) Preliminary Survey of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania: Worked as a consultant for the National Park Service to research, field inspect, and map roadway and roadside structures along 350 miles of Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania. 1997 LHHC Sign Project: Produced the recommendation report for the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor's Signage Project. 1996 City of Altoona Policy Plan: Worked as a consultant in a CDBG program to implement a city- wide citizens participation plan for the "Altoona Visioning Project" component of the City of Altoona's Comprehensive Plan. 1995 Perry G.I.S.: Constructed a parcel base map using ARC-INFO to be used for the development of a geographic information system for Perry County, Pennsylvania. 1987 MVRTA Sign Program: Designed and implemented a county-wide bus stop signage program for the Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority in Dayton, Ohio. 1986 MVRTA Passenger Amenities: Designed passenger shelters and on-street site specifications, and supervised the fabrication and implementation of passenger amenities for bus stops throughout the county-wide Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority system.

PUBLICATIONS:

2018 1. Review for Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City in Pennsylvania Heritage, Summer 2018. 2. “Pennsylvania Blobfest Roadtrip,” Society for Commercial Archeology Wildwood, New Jersey Conference field trip monograph, July, 2018. 2017 Route 6 in Pennsylvania, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC. Book co-authored with Elizabeth Roseman & Curtis Roseman. 2016 “Pennsylvania Power: Energy Fuels Change,” Western Pennsylvania History, Summer 2016, co- authored with Rick Hock, Chris Schaney, and Brian Okey. 2015 1. “ Diner Tour and More,” Society for Commercial Archeology field trip monograph, 2015. 2. “Modernizing Center City; Philadelphia’s Penn Center,” Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine, Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Fall 2015. 3. “North Jersey Diner Tour and More: Soprano-Land Diners,” Society for Commercial Archeology Road Notes, Fall 2015. 2012 “Wildwood Daze,” Society for Commercial Archeology Wildwood, New Jersey Conference field trip monograph, September 2012. 2011 “ Diner Tour and More,” Society for Commercial Archeology field trip monograph, September 2011. 2009 1. “The Spirit of the Passage: Where Past and Future Meet,” in An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage, Edward K. Muller (editor), Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. 2. “Iron and Steel” chapter for Michigan Geography and Geology, Randall Schaetzl chief editor, New York: Custom Publishing, 2009. 2007 1. “Landscapes of Steel” entry in The American Midwest; An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew Cayton (editors), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 2. “Ten Coolest buildings in Indiana,” Indiana Gazette, September 9, 2007. 2006 1. "Seeing the Scenic Upland South: Mother Nature and the Morphology of Tourist Landscapes," chapter for Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture, co-edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 2. Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age, co- edited with Joseph L. Scarpaci, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 3. Greetings from the Lincoln Highway: America’s First Coast to Coast Road, 15 color Lincoln Highway maps for author Brian Butko: Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005. 2004 1. Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. 2. “The Lincoln Highway Lost and Found in Pittsburgh and the Upper Ohio Valley,” Twelfth Annual Lincoln Highway National Conference, Franklin Grove, IL: Lincoln Highway Association, 2004. 3. “Post-Industrial Philadelphia: Dismantling the Workshop of the World,” in Percy H. Dougherty (ed.) Geography of the Philadelphia Region: Cradle of Democracy, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 2004. 4. “Philadelphia Beyond the Liberty Bell,” Association of American Geographers Newsletter, January 2004. 2002 1. The Lincoln Highway Resource Guide, co-authored with Robert E. Wilson, National Park Service document, August 2002 2. Lincoln Highway Landscape Interpretation Manual, National Park Service document, May 2002 3. “Triangle Tracks,” Western Pennsylvania History, Spring 2002 4. “The Lincoln Motor Court: Heritage Tourism and the Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Lincoln Highway Landmark,” Kevin J. Patrick and Keith A. Sculle, Pioneer America Society Transactions, 2002, Pioneer America Society, Volume XXV, 2002. 2000 1. Interpretive Plan: Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, contributing author, prepared by John Milner Associates, Inc. for the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, July 2000 2. A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies from to Post- Industrial, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 2000; co-edited with Joseph L. Scarpaci, Jr. 3. “Pittsburgh as Concentric Triangle” in A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies from Precambrian to Post-Industrial, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 2000 4. “Jack Magarac and the Spirit of Pittsburgh” in A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies from Precambrian to Post-Industrial, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 2000 5. “Pittsburgh: City of Bridges” in A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies from Precambrian to Post-Industrial, Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 2000 1999 1. Diners of Pennsylvania, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books; co-authored with Brian Butko. 2. “Illinois Lincoln Highway Adventure,” co-authored with Carol Ingald, The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 6, Nos. 3 and 4, Spring/Summer 1999. 1998 1. “Double-Headed Drive: The Third Annual Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Road Rally,” The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 1998. 2. "Roadside Ephemera on the Eve of Destruction", The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1998. 1997 1. “Book Review of The National Road and A Guide to the National Road” (Karl Raitz, ed.), The Pennsylvania Geographer, Vol. 35, No. 2, Fall 1997. 2. “Until the Cows Come Home”, The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol.4, No.4 Summer – 1997. 3. “Sidetracked by Scale While in Search of the Ten Best Lincoln Highway Landmarks”, The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol.4, No.3 – Spring 1997. 4. “Tourism in Marginalized Areas: Spinning Straw into Gold on Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Highway”, Technology, Landscape, and Arrested Development: Essays on the Geography of Marginality, Vincent P. Miller, ed. Indiana, Pa., Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Indiana University of Penna., 1997. 5. “Pennsylvania Parade: From ‘P’ to Shining ‘P’”, The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 4, No.2 -Winter 1997. 1996 1. “Book Review of Views from the Road: A Community Guide for Assessing Rural Historic Landscapes” (David H. Copps), The Pennsylvania Geographer, Vol. XXXIV, No.2- Fall/Winter 1996. 2. "GIS and Heritage Tourism: The Analysis and Management of Cultural Resources Along Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway", Pennsylvania Geographic Information System Resource and Development Guide, Robert Sechrist, ed. Indiana, Pa., Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 1996. 3. "Sunday Driver: Tom Baldridge's Lincoln Highway", The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring, 1996. 4. "Book Review of A Pennsylvania Traveler's Guide: The Lincoln Highway" (Brian Butko), The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring, 1996. 5. Thirteen relief maps for A Pennsylvania Traveler's Guide: The Lincoln Highway, Brian Butko, Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1996. 6. Sixty-nine location maps for Great Natural Areas in Eastern Pennsylvania, Stephen J. Ostrander, Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1996. 1992-1995 1. "The American Roadside Giant: Myth, Meaning And Cultural Identity", Society for Commercial Archeology Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring-Summer, 1995. 2. "The Lincoln Highway Lost and Found in Philadelphia”, The Lincoln Highway Forum, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer 1994. 3. "Lincoln Highway Tour: Regional and Historical Context for Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Landscape", Old Lincoln Highway Association Charter program guide, June 9-12, 1993. 4. "A Geography Field Trip; The Haw River Valley", North Carolina Geography, co-authored with Phil Page and Bill Welsh, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1992. 5. "Transportation Corridor; Examining the Development and Spatial Structure of Linear Cultural Landscapes", Small Town, Vol. 22, No. 4, January-February 1992.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

2018 “Adventures on Route 6,” Rotary guest speaker, Indiana, PA, September, 2018. “Pennsylvania Blobfest Roadtrip,” Field trip led for the Society for Commercial Archeology, July 2018. 2017 “Vital Remains: Life, Death and Identity in the American Cemetery,” co-presented with Stacey Patrick for the Shakespeare Club, Indiana, PA, October 13, 2017. “Cincinnati Tour,” Field trip for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 5, 2017. “Dixie Highway in Ohio,” Field trip co-led with Russell Rein for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2017. 2016 “Indiana Bicentennial Walking Tour,” Co-led field trip for Downtown Indiana Assoc. Bicentennial celebration. “Lincoln Highway West Tour,” Field trip for the Lincoln Highway Association annual conference in Gettysburg, PA, June 14, 2016. 2015 “Renegade Roadside Tour of Flushing Meadows and Coney Island,” Field trip for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Wildwood, N.J., September 27, 2015. “North Jersey Diner Tour and More,” Field trip for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Wildwood, N.J., September 26, 2015. “Getting a Kick Out of Route 66; On the Mother Road with Kevin Patrick,” Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honors Society guest speaker, Indiana, Pennsylvania, March 2015. “Early Diners in a Railroad World,” Association of American Geographers conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 22, 2015. “Water Flowing Downhill Affecting Us All; A Watershed Story,” Storm Water Management Workshop, Indiana, Pennsylvania, March 13, 2015. 2014 “Diners and the Suburbanization of New Jersey,” Society for Commercial Archeology conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 9-12, 2014. 2013 “LHA; A Family Portrait,” Lincoln Highway Association conference, Kearney, , July 3, 2013. “See It By Car; The Automobile and Pennsylvania’s Golden Age of Show Cave Development,” National Speleological Society conference, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, August 8, 2013. 2012 “South Tour,” Field trip for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Wildwood, N.J., September 29, 2012. “Wildwood Doo Wop Tour,” Field trip for the Society of Commercial Archeology national conference, Wildwood, N.J., September 26, 2012. “Great Lakes Odyssey: 2 Nations, 12 Geographers, 2200 Miles, Twice;” Keynote address for the Pennsylvania Canadian Studies Consortium Conference, Indiana, PA, March 29, 2012. “Sopranoland Suburbia;” Field trip for the national Association of American Geographers conference, New York, NY, February 26, 2012. “Biting the Big Apple with Kevin Patrick;” Field trip for the national Association of American Geographers conference, New York, NY, February 25, 2012. 2011 “Iconography and the Ideal Shape of Place,” Keynote Address for the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, Indiana, PA, November 4, 2011. “Kiski Valley Connections: Linking Past Landscapes with Present Places,” Keynote Address for the Kiskiminetas Valley Greenway Project, Saltsburg, PA, September 21, 2011. “South Jersey Diner Tour and More,” Day-long field trip through Southern New Jersey for the national Society for Commercial Archeology, September 18, 2011. “Adventures in Dinerland: An Exploration of Jersey Diners,” Keynote presentation for the Society of Commercial Archeology regional meeting, Cherry Hill, NJ, September 17, 2011. “Geography at Your Doorstep,” Indiana School District Teachers Seminar, Indiana Technology Center, Indiana, PA, April, 2011. 2010 “DC in a Day,” Association of American Geographers field trip through Washington, DC, April 15, 2010. 2009 “Coal Patch Communities in Indiana County, Pennsylvania: Industrial Age Urbanity in Rural Appalachia,” Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of American Landscapes annual conference, Pipestem, West Virginia, October 10, 2009. “Trail Town: Recreation, Heritage Tourism and the Rediscovery of Place Identity,” Fifth Annual Pennsylvania Greenways and Trails Summit, Altoona, Pennsylvania, September 29, 2009. “Journey Through Hallowed Ground,” Field trip along the Lincoln Highway, Chambersburg to Columbia, Pennsylvania, Advanced Alliance Summer Geography Institute, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 28, 2009. “Borderlands: The Geography of South Central Pennsylvania’s Historic Frontiers,” Advanced Alliance Summer Geography Institute, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 27, 2009. “This is Vegas: OR, Can I get a deep fried Twinkie with that?” Field trip for the Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, , March 24, 2009. “Rocky Roadside Huntingdon County,” Presentation for the Huntingdon County historical Society, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, February 22, 2009. “You’re Not Dead, You’re in Newark: A Sopranos Geography of New Jersey,” Words and Worlds: Talking about Place in English Studies conference, Indiana, Pennsylvania, February 16, 2009 2008 “Pittsburgh Planning and the Transformation of an Urban Environment: A City Excursion with Kevin Patrick and D. Whitt Watts” co-led field trip for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 12-14, 2008. “Rainbow’s End: Fayette County, Pennsylvania’s Natural and Historic Landscapes,” keynote presentation for the Fayette County Tourism Alliance 3rd Tourism Summit, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, September 21, 2008. “Roadside Shiny: Lincoln Highway Diners and the Changing Look of Modernity,” Keynote presentation for the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Annual Road Rally, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, September 19-20, 2008. “Mapping Pennsylvania Roads West,” presentation and workshop for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, July 20-26, 2008. “Susquehanna Valley Landscapes,” presentation for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Fort Hunter State Park, Pennsylvania, July 20-26, 2008. “Forbes Road West,” Two-day field trip for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, July 20-26, 2008. “The Lower Kiski Corridor in Time and Space,” presentation for the Freeport-Leechburg- Apollo Gateway (FLAG) Community Planning Workshop, Apollo Ridge High School, Spring Church, Pennsylvania, June 27-28, 2008. “Underground Pittsburgh,” interview for WQED Studio television production, May 2007. “Atlantic City as Monopoly Board,” research paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 19, 2008. 2007 “Our Past is Our Future: Rediscovering Community Identity through the Built Environment,” keynote presentation for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Fall Historical Societies Leadership Forum, Lehigh Valley Historical Society, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 16, 2007. “Westmoreland Corridor: 250 Years of Landscape Change and Development,” presentation for the Smart Growth Partnership Route 30 Design Charrette, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg Greensburg, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2007. “Our Past is Our Future: Community Identity in a Post-Industrial World,” keynote presentation for the Pennsylvania Heritage Partnerships Conference, Indiana, PA, May 16-17, 2007. “Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders,” presentation for Friends of the Parks Series, Indiana County Parks and Trails, Blue Spruce Park, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2007. 2006 “Caves, Coal Mines and the Pattern of Pennsylvania Rocks,” presentation for Butler Outdoor Club Annual Dinner, Butler, PA, November 18, 2006. “Geography in Your Backyard: Suggestions for Achieving the Academic Standards in Social Studies,” presentation for North Allegheny High School In-Service Meeting, Wexford, Pennsylvania, November 6, 2006. “Blairsville Hill to Hill Historic Walking Tour,” field trip jointly sponsored by Indiana University of Pennsylvania Geography and Regional planning Department and the Blairsville Improvement Group, October 23, 2006. “Blairsville; Past, Present and Possible Future,” presentation at Your Town Seminar, Blairsville, Pennsylvania, August 24-26, 2006. “By Water, Rail and Road: Traversing the Illinois & Michigan Corridor,” field trip co-led with Curt and Libby Roseman, Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 2006. “Steel Shadow: The Legacy of Steel in the Chicago District,” field trip led for the Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 8, 2006. 2005 “Myth, Imagination, and Science at America’s Show Caves,” presentation for the Greater Allentown Grotto 25th Anniversary Dinner, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2005. “More Than a Cave, Man: Interpreting Tourist Caves as Place,” research presentation for the Pioneer America Society: Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes, Springfield, Ohio, October 28-29, 2005. “Selling Scenery Underground: Showing Caves to the Paying Public,” presentation for the University of , Geography Seminar Series, Newark, Delaware, October 7, 2005. “Selling Scenery Underground: Showing Caves to the Paying Public,” research presentation for the University of Akron, Geography Department Colloquium, Akron, Ohio, September 23, 2005. “A Shot in the Backwoods,” presentation for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Senator Heinz Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17-22, 2005. “Mapping the War for Empire,” presentation and workshop for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Senator Heinz Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17-22, 2005. “Observations at the Point: Compass Orienteering,” workshop for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Senator Heinz Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17-22, 2005. “Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle,” field trip for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute for Elementary and Social Studies Educators, Senator Heinz Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 17-22, 2005. “Behind the Book, Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders,” guest lecture for Bloomsburg University, Geography Department Environmental Conservation Program, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, April 14, 2005. “Underground Entrepreneur: Showing Pennsylvania’s Tourist Caves,” guest lecture for California University Geography Travel and Tourism Program, Clifornia, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2005. “Show Caves and Coal Mines: Touring Pennsylvania Where the Sun Don’t Shine,” presentation for the Michigan State University department of Geography Colloquium Series, East Lansing, Michigan, February 25, 2005. “Romantic Landscape Tourism and the Orchestration of Show Caves,” research presentation for the Association of American Geographers Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 7, 2005. 2004 “Researching Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders,” presentation for Kent State University Geography Department Colloquium, Kent, Ohio, December 3, 2004. “Pennsylvania Caves,” Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) interview the television program, PA Books, (Camp Hill, PA) at Indian Echo Caverns, November 24, 2004. “The Geography of Pennsylvania Show Caves,” research presentation for the Pennsylvania Geographical Society Conference, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, November 5-6, 2004. “Pennsylvania Caves: Nature as Tourist Attraction,” research presentation for the Middle States Association of American Geographers, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 29-30, 2004. “Lincoln Highway Lost and Found in Pittsburgh,” field trip co-led with Brian Butko and John Harman for the Lincoln Highway Association Conference, June 19, 2004. “Span: A Bridge Deck View of the Lincoln Highway,” Lincoln Highway Association Conference, June 18, 2004. “Borderlands: The Geography of Bucks County, Pennsylvania,” invited speaker presentation for the Pennsylvania Geographical Alliance annual meeting; Doylestown, PA, April 30, 2004 “Carnivals and Cranes: Philadelphia, Camden and the New Millennium Waterfront,” field trip for the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 15, 2004. “Art-adelphia: Neighborhoods, Place Meaning and Expression,” field trip for the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2004. “Post-Industrial Philadelphia: Dismantling the Workshop of the World,” field trip for the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 17, 2004. “Modernity Comes to Philadelphia: Center City’s 20th Century Built Environment,” field trip for the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 18, 2004. 2003 “Trails, Tracks and the Lincoln Highway in Everett, Pennsylvania,” presentation for the Bloody Run Historical Society, Everett, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2003. “Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study Reconnaissance Results,” with Carol Ahlgren, Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, June 12, 2003 “Anticlines to Automobiles: A Scale Dependent Historical Geography of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,” invited speaker presentation for the Pennsylvania Geographical Alliance annual meeting; Bedford, PA, April 25, 2003 “‘See It By Boat:’ Romantic Landscape Tourism and the Show Caves of Pennsylvania,” Keynote, GTU Annual Dinner, Indiana, Pa. April 11, 2003 “Evaluating Cultural Resources on 3,500 Miles of Lincoln Highway,” poster session with Robert Wilson, Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington, DC, January 13, 2003. 2002 “The Post-Industrial Port of Philadelphia and Camden,” field trip, National Council for Geographic Education Conference, Philadelphia, Pa. October 2002 “Surveying the Transcontinental Lincoln Highway,” with Ruth Heikkinen, Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Sacramento, Ca. June 13, 2002 “American Transcontinentalism and the Historic Highway,” Keynote, National Trust’s Historic Roads Conference, Omaha, April 12, 2002 “Community, History and the ‘Home’ Highway,” Keynote, Scenic Byways Conference, Fort Scott, Kansas, September 11-12, 2002 2001 “The Show Caves of Pennsylvania,” Keynote, Pennsylvania Caves Association annual meeting, Bedford, Pa. November 30, 2001. “The Lincoln Motor Court: Heritage Tourism and the Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Lincoln Highway Landmark,” with Keith Sculle, Pioneer America Society Conference, Bardstown, Ky. October 19, 2001 “The National Lincoln Highway Study Act: What to do with a Heritage Corridor the Size of a Nation,” Byways to the Past: Conference on Archeological and Historic Investigations in Transportation Projects, Indiana, Pa. March 2001 “Diners of Western Pennsylvania,” field trip with Brian Butko, Diner Museum of America’s Dinerama Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa. June 23, 2001 “Allegheny Ridge Field Trip,” Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute, Johnstown, Pa. June 21, 2001 “Lincoln Highway Study Update,” with Sandra Washington, Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Grand Island, Neb. June 14, 2001 “Learning From Lincoln Highway: Mobile Workshop in Roadscape Interpretation,” Pennsylvania Historic Preservation and Heritage Partnerships Conference, Routes of Heritage, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9-11, 2001 “Industrial North Jersey,” field trip, Association of American Geographers Conference, New York, New York, March 1, 2001 2000 “National Park Service Lincoln Highway Study Proposal,” Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Edison, NJ, June 15, 2000 “Dodging Doom on the Lincoln Highway,” Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Edison, NJ, June 14, 2000 “Pittsburgh: Port, Portals, Bridges and Boats,” field trip with Ruth Shirey, Association of American Geographers Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 6, 2000 “Conquering the Alleghenies: Place, Passage and Pragmatism in a Post-Industrial Wilderness,” field trip, Association of American Geographers Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa. April 5, 2000 "Safe Highways to History: Interagency Cooperation in the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor," Byways to the Past: Conference on Archeological and Historic Investigations in Transportation Projects, Indiana, Pa. March 8, 2000 1999 ”Post-Diner Dark Ages in Western Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Society annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa. November 1999. “Town-Building in Rural Appalachia,” Pennsylvania Geographical Society annual meeting, Indiana, Pa. October 1999. “Indiana County’s Landscapes of Coal,” poster session, Pennsylvania Geographical Society annual meeting, Indiana, Pa. October 1999. “Heritage Tourism and the Disneyfication of Appalachia,” field trip, Pennsylvania Geographical Society annual meeting, Indiana, Pa. October 1999. “Searching for Meaning and Significance on the Trans-Appalachian Lincoln Highway,” Pioneer America Society annual meeting, Washington, Pa. October 1999. ”The Trans-Appalachian Lincoln Highway,” Lincoln Highway Association annual meeting, Rochelle, Illinois, June 1999. 1998 ”Setting the Scene: Using the Arts to Convey Sense of Place in American Regional Geography,” Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Boston, Mass. March 1998. "Grass Roots Promotion of Historic Roads", session chair and presenter of; "Are We There Yet? The Art of Making Historic Highways"; National Road Alliance Conference Promoting Historic Roads and Highways, Richmond, In., April, 1998. ”Seeing the Scenic Upland South: Mother Nature and the Morphology of Tourist Landscapes,” Society for Commercial Archeology annual conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, October, 1998. ”Interpreting Historic Highways as Geography,” workshop conducted at the Society for Commercial Archeology annual meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 1998. 1997 "Three Identities for Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Landscape"; Lincoln Highway Association Conference, Mansfield, Ohio, June, 1997. “The Twin Gaps of Bedford County"; Lincoln Highway Association/Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor seminar and field trip, Bedford County, Pa., May, 1997. 1996 "Faded Images: A 1930s View of the Lincoln Highway"; Senator Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pittsburgh Pa., October, 1996. "Pennsylvania Lincoln Highway Road Rally"; Lincoln Highway Association/Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor field trip from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Pa., October, 1996. "Heritage Tourism and the Reinterpretation of Pennsylvania's Industrial Landscapes"; Pennsylvania Geographical Society Conference, Carlisle, Pa., October, 1996. "The Lincoln Highway in Three States"; Lincoln Highway Association field trip from Pittsburgh to E. Liverpool, Ohio, July, 1996. "Learning From Lincoln Highway: Identity, Place and a Pennsylvania Roadscape"; Association of American Geographers meeting, Charlotte, N.C., April 1996. 1995 "The Lincoln Highway: Lost and Found in Pittsburgh"; invited speaker, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Sewickley, Pa., November, 1995. "Tourism in Marginalized Areas: Spinning Straw into Gold on Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway"; Planning in Marginal Areas Seminar, Indiana, Pa., June, 1995. 1994 "Common Highways as Sacred Space; Conflicts and Compromises"; Transportation Research Board's Summer Workshop, Princeton, N.J., August, 1994. "Ridge-top Places and Highway Landscapes"; guest speaker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Gamma Tau Upsilon annual dinner, Indiana, Pa., April, 1994. "Touring Abandonment; Recasting the Cultural Identity of Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Landscape;" Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, Cal., March, 1994.

1993 "The Evolution of Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Landscape"; Charter Conference of the Lincoln Highway Association, Bedford, Pa., July, 1993. "Doing Roadside Research"; workshop, Charter Conference of the Lincoln Highway Association, Bedford, Pa., July, 1993. "The Lincoln Highway; Greensburg to Lancaster"; field trip co-led with Brian Butko, Charter Conference of the Lincoln Highway Association, Bedford, Pa., Summer, 1993. 1992 "Judging a Landscape By its Cover; The Place Identity of Unfamiliar Environments"; Southeast Division Association of American Geographers, Louisville, Ky., November, 1992. 1991 "Transportation Corridor; Examining the Development and Spatial Structure of Linear Cultural Landscapes"; paper presented before the Association of American Geographers, Miami, Fla., April, 1991. 1990 "Granddaddy of Them All; A Postcard View of the Role of The Pennsylvania Turnpike in the Evolution of the American Highway System"; Society for Commercial Archeology, Pittsburgh, Pa., Fall, 1990. 1989 "Baltimore Northern Hinterlands"; field trip co-led with Charles Boas, Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, Md., April, 1989. "Ellicott City, "; field trip co-led with Charles Boas, Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, Md., April, 1989. 1988 "Transcape; Modelling Transportation Landscapes"; Middle States Association of American Geographers, Reading, Pa., October, 1988. "Transportation Landscapes of Reading, Pennsylvania"; field trip, Middle States Association of American Geographers Meeting, Reading, Pa., October, 1988. 1987 "The Lincoln Highway Revisited; A Research Proposal for Examining the Cultural Landscape of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania"; Department of Geography colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il.; and Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mi., October, 1987. "York County Transportation Landscapes"; field trip co-led with Charles Boas, Geographers Association, October, 1987.