Super-Scenic Motorway
A Blue Ridge Parkway History
Nonfiction, Travel, United States, South, History, Americas
| Author: | Anne Mitchell Whisnant | ISBN: | 9780807898420 |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press | Publication: | October 2, 2006 |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Anne Mitchell Whisnant |
| ISBN: | 9780807898420 |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Publication: | October 2, 2006 |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Language: | English |
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 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.
