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American Pilgrim - A Post-September 11th Bus Trip and Other Tales of the Road (Hardcover)
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American Pilgrim - A Post-September 11th Bus Trip and Other Tales of the Road (Hardcover)
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"God bless the United States and God bless New York City"
proclaimed a sign as the bus rolled through a small Indiana town.
In October 2001, author Bill Markley was traveling by public bus
from Pierre, South Dakota, to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,
Virginia, for a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity celebration. The day
Markley left South Dakota began simply enough, but soon tragedy
unfolded when a deranged man of Croatian descent slit the throat of
a Greyhound bus driver causing an accident and throwing the
nation's bus system into disarray. "American Pilgrim" is an honest
account of life on the bus, the characters on the bus, bus culture,
and the mood of the American people-reflective, patriotic, and
upbeat.In those challenging days after the attacks on 9/11,
everyone struggled to make sense of the world; as Markley worked on
this story; it grew beyond the story of a simple 3,000-mile bus
trip. He recalls many of his life's detours, recounting past events
at locations the bus traveled through and people associated with
those locations-a rambling personal history of people, places, and
things. The trip took on new meaning and became a spiritual journey
into the country's past and Markley's past.
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