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This book will be of interest to scholars and collectors of the Craft movement, to scholars interested in the history of leisure travel and the development of automobile tourism, and to both scholars and general audiences interested in the history of Western New York. - Tamar W. Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism Connects the dots, literally on a map, of regional crafts after the first quarter of the 20th century. Along with specifics of two craft 'shops' and the craftsmen who populated them, the author highlights the impact of highway tourism on the shops and beyond and the unlikely 'angel investor' who owned a chain of gasoline stations and brought the see it made idea to roadside craft sales. - Grant Hamilton, Publisher, Neighbor-to-Neighbor News, Inc.

"""This book will be of interest to scholars and collectors of the Craft movement, to scholars interested in the history of leisure travel and the development of automobile tourism, and to both scholars and general audiences interested in the history of Western New York."" — Tamar W. Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism ""Connects the dots, literally on a map, of regional crafts after the first quarter of the 20th century. Along with specifics of two craft 'shops' and the craftsmen who populated them, the author highlights the impact of highway tourism on the shops and beyond and the unlikely 'angel investor' who owned a chain of gasoline stations and brought the 'see it made' idea to roadside craft sales."" — Grant Hamilton, Publisher, Neighbor-to-Neighbor News, Inc."

"""Tourists and Trade contains an index and a complete listing of notes and references, which are well organized and useful in this interesting and original premise that has rarely been considered."" — Maine Antique Digest ""This book will be of interest to scholars and collectors of the Craft movement, to scholars interested in the history of leisure travel and the development of automobile tourism, and to both scholars and general audiences interested in the history of Western New York."" — Tamar W. Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism ""Connects the dots, literally on a map, of regional crafts after the first quarter of the 20th century. Along with specifics of two craft 'shops' and the craftsmen who populated them, the author highlights the impact of highway tourism on the shops and beyond and the unlikely 'angel investor' who owned a chain of gasoline stations and brought the 'see it made' idea to roadside craft sales."" — Grant Hamilton, Publisher, Neighbor-to-Neighbor News, Inc."

This book will be of interest to scholars and collectors of the Craft movement, to scholars interested in the history of leisure travel and the development of automobile tourism, and to both scholars and general audiences interested in the history of Western New York. - Tamar W. Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism Connects the dots, literally on a map, of regional crafts after the first quarter of the 20th century. Along with specifics of two craft 'shops' and the craftsmen who populated them, the author highlights the impact of highway tourism on the shops and beyond and the unlikely 'angel investor' who owned a chain of gasoline stations and brought the 'see it made' idea to roadside craft sales. - Grant Hamilton, Publisher, Neighbor-to-Neighbor News, Inc.

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Bruce A. Austin is Professor in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of A Symbiotic Partnership: Marrying Commerce to Education at Gustav Stickley's 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibitions and Frans Wildenhain, 1950–75: Creative and Commercial Ceramics at Mid-Century; and editor of Imagine This! RIT's Innovation + Creativity Festival.

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