- DURATION 60 mins
Event Description
ON THE ROAD IN NORTH AMERICA (PART 1) - Tuesday 11th July
Chris Forse (‘Thirty Years of Travel in China’ and ‘A Journey Through South African History’) returns to our screens for the first of two talks on his experiences of fifty years of ‘the great American Road trip’.
In this talk Chris describes the thrills and challenges of driving (and hitching) through the USA and Canada and explores the unique culture that has grown around ‘the road’ and ‘the car’ and their place in American consciousness. It is also a journey through American history, including a pilgrimage to shrines of its ‘martyrs’: Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, and JFK. It is also a photographic record of glorious scenery preserved in iconic national parks. In this talk Chris takes us on journeys through the Fall (the Autumn) from the Canadian border in New England to the Smoky Mountains, and then ‘chases the winter sun’ through Florida to Key West. And all to the accompaniment of the music of the road.
ON THE ROAD IN NORTH AMERICA (PART 2): THE AMERICAN WEST - Thursday 13th July
The American (and Canadian) West is the setting for the American Road experience par excellence: vast deserts, mountains, forests and coastlines contained within spectacular national parks and monuments, among them Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. Join Chris on his journeys from the red deserts of the southwest to the snowy peaks of the Canadian Rockies, and along the Pacific coast. He encountered bears and buffalo, polygamous Mormons, was mugged by Hopi Indians, camped in glorious desert isolation, and experienced the great freedom of the ‘open road’ in what is a vast (and largely empty) landscape. The spectacular scenery is captured in hundreds of photographs, set to the music of the movies and other memorable pieces.
- Duration: 60 mins
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Meet the Host, Chris
Chris Forse is a retired teacher and administrator who spent 33 years in Hong Kong where he was also a sometime columnist and radio panel guest. He has travelled widely, enjoys travel photography and self-publishing and is a reputed speaker on travel, history and politics in the Midlands where he was for six years chairman of one of England’s largest U3As. He has produced several talks for Rest Less including his travel experiences in North America and China, and on the history of the Lake District.
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