During the summers of 2011 and 2012 I drove across the country with my son Walker photographing public libraries throughout the United States. In 2011 we visited 26 states driving 11,000 miles in eight weeks photographing 189 libraries. The states we visited included New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and New England.
In 2012 we drove 10,000 miles visiting 110 libraries in 15 states over four weeks. These states included Nevada, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
In the summer of 2016 Dawson, Ellen Manchester and Walker Dawson visited libraries in northern and eastern Europe. During eight weeks we photographed libraries in Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and Moscow.
In 2018 Dawson was awarded a six-month Fulbright Global Scholar Fellowship. Starting in September with Ellen Manchester he photographed libraries throughout Greece and Italy. They finished the project by photographing libraries throughout Isreal and Palestine during January and February, 2019.
Please follow the continuation of this occastional blog and the archive of the earlier blogs from these trips and others at http://libraryroadtrip.wordpress.com/
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