Telling America’s story. Inspiring road trips by telling people where to go. Sharing the adventure. It’s what we do at Jim Hinckley’s America
Coffee With Jim is a virtual diner where folks gather over pie and coffee, share a few laughs, talk road trips, and listen to inspirational and thought provoking people. Jim Hinckley's America is a shared adventure so invite your friends, pour yourself a cup, pull up a chair, and join the conversation.
Need added incentive to share this adventure?
Well, we are proud to annouce that Coffee With Jim has been designated an offical Route 66 centennial program.
Guests on previous programs include:
Acclaimed documentary film producer John Paget -
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jonathan Bullington, a Chicago Tribune senior reporter -
Author and photographer, president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association and manager of the Preserve Route 66 Initiative at the National Trust For Historic Preservation, Rhys Martin -
Austin Coop, owner of Two Lane America -
Richard Lentinello of Crankshaft Magazine -
Vickie Ashcraft, owner of Enchanted Trails Trading Post & RV Park, and president of the Route 66 Association of New Mexico -
Wayne Pickerill, of the Pinke Elephant Antique Mall -
Episodes
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
On this special Independence Day program we do a bit of time travel, and talk about this holiday, its origins, and its history. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” These ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence have been our national focus for nearly 250 years. Those words have given courage and inspiration to suffragettes, civil rights marchers, immigrants, and abolitionists as we evolved as a nation, and moved toward transforming those words into a reality.
For many presidents and national leaders the Fourth of July was an opportunity to inspire the nation to live up to the ideals in that declaration, and to unify the country in the pursuit of that common goal. On occasion the speeches slid into the realm of political. And there were speeches laced with brutal honesty about our failure to live up to those ideals.
But the most memorable, the most inspiring speeches were those that quoted the words of the Declaration of Independence as a reminder of our national goals, invoked the passionate spirit of America’s founding fathers, extoled the virtue of liberty, and bridged chasms of division to unite the people in a common goal.
Today's program is sponsored in part by the Roadrunner Lodge in Tucumcari, New Mexico and the Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri.
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