Driven to Win: Racing in America explores need for speed
Greg Tasker
Almost as soon as the first gas-powered vehicles began sputtering down late 19th-century roads, Americans were pushing the pedal, eager for speed, and competing against one another in horseless carriages.
The first automobile race in the United States occurred on a snowy Thanksgiving Day in Chicago in 1895. The following decade, Barney Oldfield became the first big racing hero. As the 20th century unfolded, car-crazy Americans began racing up mountains Pikes Peak across Salt Flats Bonneville and around gravel and tar tracks in Indianapolis and beyond.
The history of auto racing in the United States, along with the personalities, cars, culture and innovations, is explored in a new, permanent exhibit, “Driven to Win: Racing in America” presented by General Motors, opening this month at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn. Believed to be the first comprehensive exhibit cov
Important Central Florida sites in women’s history
Sites to visit on a tank of gas important to women’s history in Central Florida
Updated:
Tags:
This Women’s History Month, there are a number of stops on the Florida Women’s Heritage Trail right here in Central Florida you can visit to learn more about the contributions ladies have made to history right here in the Sunshine State.
All you need is some time and a tank of gas to do it.
BREVARD
, Tebeau-Field Library, 435 Brevard Avenue, Cocoa, FL 32922 (321) 690-1971
In 1927, Jeanette Thurber Conner of New Smyrna Beach organized the Florida State Historical Society with Colonel John B. Stetson, Jr. It later merged with the Florida Historical Society which acquired the current building in 1997 to house its growing collection of maps and historical documents.
Exhibition Opening: Watercolors from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s “Little Arcadia” An exhibition of a dozen skillful watercolors by women designers who worked in the enamel department of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Tiffany Studios, including one, a colorful and sensitive study of a skunk cabbage executed and signed by Alice Carmen Gouvy (1863–1924), recently acquired by the Morse.