Frank Juliano of the Connecticut Post has a nice write-up of my recent talk in Milford:

Eric Jaffe, the author of “The Kings’s Best Highway,” said in a recent lecture that the road known variously in this area as the Post Road, the Boston Post Road, the Old Post Road, Main Street and even King’s Highway was once, and for more than 200 years, the most important thoroughfare in America.

Two items of note: Juliano mistakenly calls the route through Durham and Middletown the “third” or middle Post Road, when in fact this was a branch of the main, inland highway that went through Hartford and Springfield en route to Boston.

He also writes that I said Teddy Roosevelt traveled the Post Road from Boston to New York in 1902; in fact, I pointed out that Roosevelt became the first president to travel in a motorcade while visiting Hartford.