“0” An American billboarded perspective (ABSTRACT) © 2010, 2013
“0” An American billboarded perspective (ABSTRACT) My father had us play ROAD SIGN ALPHABET to beat the monotony of long family road trips. This game is played by spelling out the alphabet on billboards. The first one to reach Z wins. I took the game a step further by studying how a town’s secrets are revealed by their billboards. Or do the billboards dictate a town’s secrets? The two haunted highways are Highway 61 and Highway 49. Highway 49 descends to the end of Mississippi (Gulfport) (the Gulf Of Mexico), and ascends in Clarksdale. Highway 61 ascends to Memphis Tennessee and descends near St. Francisville Louisiana.