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    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
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725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Twentysix Wawa Stores
​
Eric Weeks 

January 22 - May 28, 2022
Reception: May 21, 2022, 3-6pm
Please note: we will be open 12-3 pm on Saturday, May 28th.
​

A Zoom discussion with Eric Weeks will take place in March 12, 2022, from 2pm-3:30pm Eastern. 

Eric Weeks, Twentysix Wawa Stores: a conversation with the artist
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83259344358


Please visit
www.ericweeksphoto.com 
​to view more of Eric’s work.

Read the Lancaster Online article about this project here.

The artist's book Twentysix Wawa Stores is available for purchase. Each month the price of the book will change based on Ruscha's original $3.50 times inflation. The price as of May 2022 is $33.32, plus shipping (having been  $32.31 January - March).
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Edition size: 400 copies, each with hand-folded glassine dust jacket, numbered in red pencil on colophon page.


Three sets of the project are available for purchase, each including: the film, the book (# 1, # 2, or # 3 of the edition), and a full set of prints.

​Please email us for purchasing details and with any questions at 
info@streetroad.org.

Twentysix Wawa Stores examines the Pennsylvania-based convenience store and gas purveyor Wawa. Wawa means wild goose in the indigenous American language of the Ojibwe. The Wawa business started in 1902 as a dairy farm located in Wawa, Pennsylvania, an area first named as such by land owner Edward Worth [1]. The film follows the Lincoln Highway, starting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and culminating at the farthest north Wawa store in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The Lincoln Highway was established in 1913 as the automobile became the dominant means of transportation [2]. It is one of the first transcontinental highways that stretched across the United States. Much like Edward Ruscha’s quietly contemplative Twentysix Gasoline Stations, published in 1962, Eric Weeks’ Twentysix Wawa Stores unobtrusively observes the phenomenon of automobile culture in America in the 2020’s. We are now at a crossroad, as General Motors recently announced a new policy to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035 [3]. The use of internal combustion engines in transportation vehicles is ending, and convenience stores based on fossil fuel sales will need to adapt.

​The film points to Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations by referencing the same design as his book, as well as the subject of gasoline stations. A companion book to the film Twentysix Wawa Stores is a facsimile of Ruscha’s, which furthers the dialogue between his seminal work and Weeks’. The film was shot during the Covid-19 pandemic, and documents a particular time in the history of the United States, when masks were necessary to enter stores, and oftentimes two trips were required to retrieve the forgotten mask left in the car.

All of Eric Weeks’ films document and contemplate the profound technological and cultural changes currently experienced in the Northeast of the United States. The short film Twentysix Wawa Stores will be exhibited at Street Road Artists in 2022 and the book, published under the Street Road Press imprint, will be released concurrently, marking the 60th anniversary of the first edition of Edward Ruscha’s book.

[1] Ashmead, Henry Graham (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., p. 298.
[2]  The Lincoln Highway Association. Accessed July 24, 2021.
[3]  Abuelsamed, Sam. GM To Make Only Electric Vehicles By 2035, Be Carbon Neutral by 2040. Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2021.

Zoom conversation with artist Eric Weeks 

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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.

Street Road HOURS
currently: Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm. 

​Note:
Street Road will be closed 1/15 through 2/2/23 for installation.

Little Free Library HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm (beginning Jan 16, 2023)
​Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.


Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
​
We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: 
email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road
 here. 
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog