Super-Scenic Motorway A Blue Ridge Parkway History |
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| Author:
| Whisnant, Anne Mitchell |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3037-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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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 popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their uniform vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different...
More DescriptionThe 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 popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their uniform vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this history of the seventy-year development of the beloved roadway.