>Pop Quiz! -about our common sense of Main Street’s visual vocabulary and why we need to investigate how it happened.
>The Perfect Norman Rockwell Character: Main Street – about the one “widescreen” painting Norman Rockwell did of a small town: Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas.
>Reality Check: Main Street was not Made on Main Street -about the mass-produced metal storefront industry
>Tracking Down the Goods Sold on Main Street USA -about research for the chapters that will examine how Main Street functioned as a center for ‘local’ goods and services
Constructing Main Street was no simple feat and many inventions developed to support it. Seen here is Christman’s Brick Elevator, published in Scientific American, Nov. 24, 1860.
The Myths of Main Street 