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Beast of Main Street – Main Street of America Speaks Out on Covid

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Beast of Main Street is a dazzling, original angle on how ordinary people are living in Covid times. The author rides America’s Main Street, Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles interviewing ordinary people about love, loss and the meaning of life in pandemic times. It’s a spectacular ride to capture the spirit of a pandemic. Let’s ride!

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Beast of Main Street is a dazzling, original angle on how ordinary people are living in Covid times. Meet people on America’s Main Street talking about their powerful, heartbreaking, and inspirational experiences.     Join award-winning journalist Michael Sean Comerford as he bicycles along the fabled Route 66. It’s a 2,500-mile ride from Chicago to Los Angeles into a deadly pandemic surge claiming more than one million lives.     Comerford talks to people relying on religion, folk wisdom, conspiracies and science to survive. He finds compassion and life-affirming stories are contagious too.     The ride is touched by adventure as he overcomes snow storms and five bicycle breakdowns while crossing Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.     View more than 100 people videotaped for the YouTube channel The Story Cycle, edited by the University of Florida’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.  It’s a spectacular ride to capture the spirit of a pandemic.  Let’s ride.

About Michael Sean Comerford

Michael Sean Comerford is an award-winning former international journalist who worked in Chicago, New York, Budapest, and Moscow. He’s bicycled across the USA four times and hitchhiked across America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He’s ridden freight trains and rounded up cattle out West, studied Buddhism in the Himalayas, and won a heavyweight boxing championship in Ireland. Comerford toured almost 100 countries, swam the headwaters of the Nile, fought off a hippo attack, and toured ecological disaster areas in the Amazon. He lives in the Chicago area to be near his daughter Grace. He’s promised her that he’ll stay closer to home for a while. His byline has appeared in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Copley News Service, New York Daily News, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal, and The Moscow Times. He has a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; a journalism fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park; video training certificate from the Poynter Institute of Media Studies; a B.A. from Marquette University; junior year at University of College Cork, Ireland. Comerford has won several Peter Lisagor, Associated Press, and other awards. He lives in the Chicago area to be near his daughter Grace. He’s promised her that he’ll stay closer to home for a while.

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