THE AMERICAN GUIDE is a revival of the Depression-era guidebook series by the same name. It’s part archive curation from back in the day, part documentary travel in the here and now. It’s here to keep a state by state record of an America coming out of the Great Recession and beyond: to document people and places both pretty and hard because, all things being equal, that’s what makes America, Amer
ica. A/G is also here to get Americans to start seeing America — its landscape and its architecture, its amber waves of grain and its strip malls, its apple pies and its oilrigs. Because the American has always been a traveler: our blazed trails and beaten paths sprawl across the country. Like the westward-ho pioneers or the nomadic tribes of American Indians, we hit the road to find home and happiness, freedom and fortune. A/G is for the tourist and the local in these here United States. It’s a view inside the grimy shop window you pass every day, as well as required reading for your road trip. It’s the past, present, and future of where Americans live. With A/G you will find out why a place is called home and, maybe, find yourself there, too.
