Nowheresville

Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation.
Ron Jacobs, Burlington, Vt: Formite Press, 132pp, $12.00

The literature of itinerant travel, “on the road,” has been a search for the Lost Highway of American life as soon as turnpikes (often based on Indigenous people’s trails) offered escape. Escape from what? Or in hopes of discovery, what?  This is even now an unanswered question.

John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed, hit the road when there were too many other mouths to feed,...