Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture.
Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture. Edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. [xxii], 298. $48.00, ISBN 1-57233-467-3.) This anthology covers various aspects of early-twentieth-century highway building and road culture in seventeen chapters. The first seven examine highway...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Victor Guthrie A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Eugene for Victor Ernest Guthrie of Eugene. He died Jan. 22 of kidney failure at age 78. He was born April...

They've got next.
Byline: Michael Hines For The Register-Guard CHICAGO - From the west, the road into Chicago is purposeful. There is no slowing down and no winding on the Eisenhower Expressway. It's a no-nonsense stretch of pavement, a straight shot through the blowing snow and into the pounding heart...

Ducks win some, lose some.
Byline: Rob Moseley The Register-Guard A year ago, the recruiting front was so calm the night before signing day that UO coach Mike Bellotti said he got the best sleep he'd ever had on the eve of letter of intent signings. That had been the...

The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection.
The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection. By Andrea Bieler and Luise Schottroff. (Fortress, 256 pp., $22.00 paperback.) Coming out of the authors' jointly taught course called Eucharist as Holy Eating, at the Pacific School of Religion, this lively book plumbs the eucharistic traditions of the early church to address...

Libraries and archives.
The Georgia Historical Society announces eleven archival collections that are now available for research: W. Edwin Mires collection of Atlantic Coastline Railroad photographs, 1930; Henry Shepard letter to Tirrman Walker, 1824; National Society Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia genealogy files, 1775-1980; Ivan Bailey Olympic Gaines...

Lawn work begins; Don't go crazy with the fertilizer.
Byline: Paul Rogers COLUMN: ROOTS OF WISDOM If you want the healthiest lawn in your neighborhood, without it costing you a small fortune, consider the basic needs of growing grass. Keep in mind that it is not nature's way to cover the soil. New England...

2008 state conferences.
2008 State Conferences (as of April 14, 2008) This list contains only those state MTA conferences held during the fall months. State Date Location Georgia November 6-8 University of Georgia Kentucky October 24-28 Campbellsville University Louisiana October 23-24 Centenary College of Louisiana Montana November 6-8 TBD Nebraska October 16-19...

SCOREBOARD.
Byline: The Register-Guard Scoreboard ON THE AIR TELEVISION golf European: Indonesian Open (taped), Golf 4:30 a.m. PGA: Northern Trust Open, Golf Noon LPGA: SBS Open at Turtle Bay, Golf 3:30 p.m. NASCAR ...

Brokenness and Blessing: Towards a Biblical Spirituality.
Brokenness and Blessing: Towards a Biblical Spirituality. By Frances M. Young. (Baker Academic, 144 pp., $16.99 paperback.) Young brings her experience of raising a disabled son and her deep familiarity with the devotional traditions of the early church to an exploration of five movements in biblical spirituality: the desert...