The first one, and the one that any visitors have seen when they went there to this point, was to provide a digital resting place for my brief career as a college sports journalist. Anyone who has read my weekly entries entitled The Authority Speaks have read, laughed at my ineptitude, and moved on with their lives.
But Why Won't You Write?! had a second purpose that I am introducing today . . . to provide a similar resting place for my one piece of long-term, long-form research--my Masters degree history thesis. It is entitled "The Second Night's Stop": Effects of U.S. Highway 301, Tourism, and Interstate 95 Upon Statesboro, Georgia, 1950-1975.
It is much different than what you usually read under my internet name and I predict that far fewer of my regular readers will even bother to give it a try. (It is, after all, a very long document.) But I haven't posted the entire thing all at once. In fact, it has taken me months of sporadic work to even get the initial chapter ready for viewing.
So, if you are interested in giving it a skim or a careful, (cringe-worthy) read, here is what you will find at this point.
- The Abstract provides a brief introduction of the paper's overall goal and subject matter. Everyone can read it and decide if it is even remotely interesting. It won't take you more than a minute or two.
- Chapter 1--A History of Travel Days Gone By is the only other section that is currently available to read. It is pretty long, so if you are interested in delving deep, it'll take you a while. (There are some illustrations, if that sweetens the deal.) Over time, I'll get around to adding the remaining chapters, notifying everyone when the next installment is live.
Anyway, I hope you like it and find some of it interesting. My ongoing work on resurrecting this work won't detract from the mindless ephemera that you have come to expect on Why Won't You Grow?!
Thank you and Namaste.
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