Eric Model & "Hidden America"

INTRODUCING HIDDEN AMERICA….
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything” – Charles Kuralt, On the Road with Charles Kuralt
Just what is the Hidden America?
It's not likely to be found on a map. Nonetheless, the Hidden America may be found across the land - in Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, even New York City. It's the individual parts of America that collectively make up the American experience.
It's lobstermen in Maine, loggers at work in the woods of Washington State, a rodeo in Oklahoma, and Blue Ridge Mountain Bluegrass. It's the foods, places, peoples, customs, and history that unite us in a common narrative – something providing a rare degree of commonality for Americans these days, while accounting for the historic diversity that endures to today.

Inspired by the late Charles Kuralt’s On The Road, Hidden America is a guide to the people, places and events that celebrate America’s rich traditions in music, books, customs and history – information that for a long time was scattered and diffuse.

The starting point for this journey is America's festivals and events.
But in addition to being a valuable source of information Hidden America also offers context and insight on the events, traditions, culture, food, music, history, literature and customs of the surrounding area and the people who make it significant. It is entertaining and compelling content – of interest not just to travelers, but to armchair travelers as well.

“Hidden America” is the name we have used to identify a content platform and banner for a number of networks or communities based on the theme “dedicated to On The Road Americana”.
More than anything Hidden America is a state of mind - recalling culture and media from an earlier, some say simpler, but surely less bellicose and jaded time. No, it is not sappy nostalgia or history through rose colored glasses– We combine the technology of today with a spirit which seemingly is more elusive to find, if not lost. We are not cool, we are enduring, though. We are not the flavor of the week, but all the flavors that collectively make up what has become known to be the American experience.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust