Twentysix Wawa Stores2022

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. The film follows the Lincoln Highway, starting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and culminating at the farthest north Wawa store in Elizabeth, NJ.

Much like Edward Rucha’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 2020s.