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The Road to College

  If you are a high school freshman, the road to college looks a long way off. If you're a senior, it probably feels all too close! Either way, the earlier you start thinking about…

On the Road Again—2000

Archival Material Jump on the festival bandwagon this summer by Beth Rowen Chicago Blues Festival | Glastonbury Festival | JVC Jazz Festival | Monterey Jazz Festival | Newport Folk Festival |…

Amy Lowell: Roads

RoadsI know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a shuttle between broad fields, And slide discreetly through hidden nooks. They are…

A Ballad of the Mulberry Road

A Ballad of the Mulberry RoadThe sun rises in south-east corner of things To look on the tall house of the Shin For they have a daughter named Rafu (pretty girl). She made the name for…

The Devil's Dictionary: Road

by Ambrose Bierce RITUALISMROBBERROAD -n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. All roads, howsoe'er they diverge,…

Brewer's: Bridle Road

or Way. A way for a riding-horse, but not for a horse and cart. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bridle upBridle A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…

Brewer's: Knights of the Road

Footpads. (See Knights O' The Post.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knights of the Round TableKnights of the Rainbow A B C D E F G H I J K L M…

Brewer's: By-road

(A). Not a main road; a local road. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894By-the-byBy-laws A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

Brewer's: Cross-roads

All (except suicides) who were excluded from holy rites were piously buried at the foot of the cross erected on the public road, as the place next in sanctity to consecrated ground.…

Brewer's: Road-agent

A highwayman in the mountain districts of North America. “Road-agent is the name applied in the mountains to a rufflan who has given up honest work in the store, in the mine, in the ranch…