The major destinations for the Long Trips between 1937 and 1941 were coal and steel areas of Pennsylvania.
Visit the 1941 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
Dr. Salvatore Vascellaro's dissertation includes interviews with participants from the 1941 Long Trip. He writes: "Howard Rolfe (1941 Q) had been well aware of strikes from his interest in the labor movement. He recalled the students investigating the union strike of electrical workers. They had visited the strike headquarters, and on his own he roamed the picket line. What he had known intellectually became real when 'the tensions and hostility ' of the company were directed at him and the other students, 'who wanted to get the story from both sides.' This was the first time he witnessed a strike, and he described it as 'an experience'" (p. 169-170).