http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170608/dozen-communities-celebrating-ties-to-route-66
(Steven Spearle -Springfield Journal-Register. Please Click on the link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt.)
The Shell Station museum in Mount Olive, which will be part of the festival this weekend. (roadtrips.com image)
Cheryl Eichar Jett learned to read a road map as a small child.
“I acquired (my parents’) love of road-tripping,” said Jett, a former Springfield resident and author of four books on Route 66. “Route 66 is Americana at its best. It’s a microcosm of our society.”
Several thousand enthusiasts of the iconic “Mother Road” will take part in Saturday’s Route 66 Blue Carpet Corridor Festival that covers 12 communities and about 100 miles from Virden to Collinsville along several different versions of the route.
The “Blue Carpet” is the state’s southern-most Route 66 corridor. There are also “Red Carpet” and “White Carpet” corridors, which have their own separate festivals.
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