As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak
took a job with the federal government—not because he liked the
work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in
ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charles was tasked with measuring the
unmapped American landscape. Over the years this would take him
from being eaten up by mosquitoes in Alaska, to eating steak and
lobster on oil rigs in Louisiana. His career became even more
adventurous when his family later hit the road with him, making
their home in a caravan of trailers as the survey team traversed
the nation. The measurements taken by Charles and the team
eventually helped build today’s GPS technology. But such a
contribution was the furthest thing from the minds of Charles and
his family as they experienced life on the road during a time of
astounding change in American life. From segregated trains, to Cold
War military bases, and back to Kansas, Charles’s family found
that home is more than a place on a map.
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