Join popular presenter Steve Taylor for this virtual program sponsored by the N.H. Historical Society. Taylor’s career includes tenure as a farmer and journalist as well as Commissioner of N.H. Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food and Execurtive Director of the N.H Humanities Council. He was a board member of the Preservation Alliance as well.

Following World War II, New Hampshire embarked on an extensive program of constructing new highways and improving existing roads to accommodate explosive growth in passenger vehicles and the need for better infrastructure to accommodate commercial traffic. Decisions about when and where highway projects would be undertaken would generate much conflict and controversy, and decisions about highways would come to have profound and lasting impacts upon communities and entire regions of the state.

In this program, Steve Taylor reviews some of New Hampshire's most significant highway choices in the 20th century, followed by discussion of the economic, social, and cultural changes that followed decisions to build or not to build. This program is free and presented by the N.H. Historical Society through the Humanities To Go program of New Hampshire Humanities.