Beginning in Kentucky and ending in Alaska, two Nashvillians set out across the country, interviewing the men and women they came across, giving each $10, asking each to do a good deed with the money. They were searching for people of good will.
From July 2003 to June 2004, Pat Price (an individual with spina bifida) and his father Scoot Price (one of the founders of the Spina Bifida Foundation) visited every state in the U.S. and conducted 106 interviews, which they are now compiling in a book. At the end of each interview, the Prices took the interviewee's picture and asked him or her to write them in Nashville, telling how the money was used.
The Prices made their trip in intervals, taking a region of the country at a time. Father and son would fly to a city, rent a car and then drive wherever they felt inclined, not using an itinerary. They traveled more than 57,000 miles, according to Scott Price.
"I had seen a cartoon in Barron's … of a father and son looking at the evening news together, and the little boy is saying, 'Dad, has there ever been any good news?' And I was really struck by that. I thought, probably for a lot of young people, if all they've seen is the news on television, it's pretty grim much of the time," Scott Price said.