Rooted & Remembered preserves vanishing American places through story, time, memory, and the road. Every project is the same engine, pointed at a different subject.
The single thread: a story anchored to a place. Observed, interpreted, kept.
A hundred years of the Mother Road and its neon, told three ways — each project leading with the lens that fits it best. All four lenses are always underneath.
The Mother Road, finally plannable — diners, motor courts, roadside giants, and natural wonders, routed into a real day-by-day drive.
Plan the drive →America's neon, investigated across a century — lit, restored, relocated, or lost. National in scope; the specialist lens on the light that defined an era.
Explore the archive →The corridor after dark — only the signs that still light up, time-boxed to the Centennial. The same neon data as Echoes, made a night-drive.
See the night-drive →The road is the first collection, not the last. Other vanishing subjects — and a project that turns the lens inward — live here too.
A person's life anchored to the places they lived — Observe pointed inward, with a loved one. The narrated story of a life in places.
Coming soon →A town, a route, a building, a craft. The next subject slots in here — same engine, different door.
To be announcedThe neon signs are going dark. The motor courts are being razed. The last person who remembers what a place looked like in 1920s is in their nineties. The window to record any of this is closing — not eventually, now. Rooted & Remembered is the reason the Habitus engine exists in public: before a capability lands in a professional model, it earns its keep on something real, observable, and worth preserving.
Every Rooted project runs on the Habitus place-intelligence engine, and is rendered with Mapbox.
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