Beast of Main Street

Get Your Kicks on Route 66 in a Pandemic Beast of Main Street is a dazzling, original angle on how people are living in Covid times and may live in future pandemics. It's a panoramic journey across America full of powerful, heartbreaking, and inspirational experiences. Join award-winning journalist Michael Sean Comerford as he bicycles along the fabled Route 66, America's Main Street. It's a 2,500-mile ride from Chicago to Los Angeles into a deadly pandemic surge claiming more than one million lives. Comerford talks to people relying on religion, folk wisdom, conspiracies and science to survive. He finds wisdom and compassion in the words of everyday people. Along the way, there are one-of-a-kind characters, cliffhangers, mysteries, comedies and tragedies. He suffers snow storms and five bicycle breakdowns while crossing Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. View more than 100 video interviews on the YouTube channel The Story Cycle, edited by the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. It's a spectacular ride to capture the zeitgeist of a pandemic. Let's ride.

• | Author: Michael Sean Comerford
• | Publisher: Comerford Publishing LLC
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1952693152
• | ISBN-13: 9781952693151