Super-scenic motorway : a Blue Ridge Parkway history

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Where to find it

Davis Library (5th floor)

Call Number
F217.B6 W47 2006 c. 2
Status
Available
Call Number
F217.B6 W47 2006
Status
Available

North Carolina Botanical Garden Library

Call Number
F217.B6 W47 2006
Status
In-Library Use Only

North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library)

Call Number
C917.5 W5695s
Note
Dustjacket.
Call Number
C917.5 W5695s
Status
In-Library Use Only
Item Note
Dustjacket. With author's inscription.
Call Number
C917.5 W5695s c. 2
Status
Available

Undergrad Library

Call Number
F217.B6 W47 2006 c. 3
Status
Available

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Summary

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.

Contents

Introduction : a new trip along a beloved road -- Roads, parks, and tourism : a southern scenic parkway in a national context -- The scenic is political : the parkway and Asheville's tourist industry -- We ain't picked none on the scenic : parkway ideals and local realities -- By the grace of God and a Mitchell County jury : Little Switzerland, regional tourism, and the parkway -- The crowning touch of interest : parkway development, cultural landscaping, and the Eastern Band of Cherokees -- Remembering the Peaks of Otter : telling history on the parkway landscape -- From stump town to Carolina's top scenic attraction : private interests and the public good at Grandfather Mountain -- Epilogue : the parkway's past, its present, and the ongoing search for the public good.

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