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Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Karen J. Hall |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738552879 |
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With the aid of two-hundred construction photographs, an addition to the Images of America series chronicles the construction project that began as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to create jobs in the region and created a 469-mile scenic highway that was completed in 1983. Original.
Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Karen J. Hall,FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781439619391 |
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The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at Cumberland Knob. Heavy construction was done by contractors who won bids for the different projects along various sections of the parkway. Civilian Conservation Corps troops took care of the roadsides, landscaping, and structure building. As part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, this project was intended to provide jobs throughout the region. Images of America: Building the Blue Ridge Parkway contains approximately 200 construction photographs of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Super Scenic Motorway
Author | : Anne Mitchell Whisnant |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807898420 |
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The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
The Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Harley E. Jolley |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0870491008 |
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This book is an overview of the Blue Ridge Parkway's first fifty years, with photographs by William Bake. Noted Blue Ridge Parkway Historian, Harley E. Jolley, wrote the descriptions and text.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Pat Blackley,Chuck Blackley,Cara Ellen Modisett |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1560374470 |
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This book feeatures the finest images of the parkway by photography team Pat and Chuck Blackley, from grand scenics of the Peaks of Otter to close-ups of delicate trillium. Cara Ellen Modisett's inspired writing offers insight into the history, culture, and natural beauty of a place she has visited since her youth.
Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Randy Johnson |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2010-03-23 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780762762224 |
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State Hiking Series Each guide includes: - Hikes suited to every ability - Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails - Up-to-date trail descriptions with mile-by-mile directional cues - Detailed trail maps and GPS coordinates - Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, and best hiking seasons for each hike - Trail Finder for best hikes with dogs, children, great views, or wildlife viewing - Information on fees and permits, contacts, events and attractions, restaurants and accommodations, canine compatibility, and more - Zero-impact and wilderness safety tips and techniques *** The year 2010 is the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and this new edition of Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway is an indispensable resource for anyone who uses the Parkway—America's most heavily visited unit of the National Park system—as a portal to the Southern Appalachian experience. Including the best trails in the national forests, state parks, and private preserves that line the 469-mile scenic road, this is a single-volume solution for the serious explorer, whether on foot or in a car.
Shenandoah
Author | : Sue Eisenfeld |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803265394 |
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For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Author | : Charles W. Maynard |
Publsiher | : Mountain Trail Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 0984421807 |
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A photographic exploration of the Blue Ridge Parkway includes vista views of the Appalachian Mountains, pictures of waterfalls and wildflowers, and essays by the photographers.