Super Scenic Motorway

Author : Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898420

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Super-Scenic Motorway by Anne Mitchell Whisnant Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421444826

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Consuming Landscapes by Thomas Zeller Pdf

"The book explores the clash between prioritizing safety over scenery in the early development of automobile roadways in the United States and Germany"--

Author : HENRY. MACNAIR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033022268

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SCENIC MOTORWAY by HENRY. MACNAIR Pdf

Author : Leonard M. Adkins
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781469646985

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Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway, Revised and Expanded Edition by Leonard M. Adkins Pdf

This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official National Park Service trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the parkway, including the Appalachian Trail and other public pathways on national park, state park, national forest, municipal, and private lands, along with citations for the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Far more than a guide to the trails, this book will help you plan your whole trip. It's the perfect companion for your next parkway adventure. Includes: - every public trail along the parkway - GPS coordinates and 72 maps - 255 total trails, including 12 new trails since the last edition - trail length and difficulty - points of interest - wheelchair accessibility - a short history of the parkway and region - campgrounds and lodges - public restroom locations - elevation change charts for cyclists - tunnel heights for RVs - wildflower bloom calendar - selected sightseeing information on nearby towns

Author : Macnair Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 024377592X

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Scenic Motorway by Macnair Henry Pdf

Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813928531

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"Answer at Once" by Katrina M. Powell Pdf

With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land, the residents began writing letters to National Park and other government officials to negotiate their rights and to request various services, property, and harvests. Typically represented in the popular media as lawless, illiterate, and incompetent, these mountaineers prove themselves otherwise in this poignant collection of letters. The history told by the residents themselves both adds to and counters the story that is generally accepted about them. These letters are housed in the Shenandoah National Park archives in Luray, Virginia, which was opened briefly to the public from 2000 to 2002, but then closed due to lack of funding. This selection of roughly 150 of these letters, in their entirety, makes these documents available again not only to the public but also to scholars, researchers, and others interested in the region's history, in the politics of the park, and in the genealogy of the families. Supplementing the letters are introductory text, photographs, annotation, and oral histories that further document the lives of these individuals.

Author : Henry Macnair
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373305363

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SCENIC MOTORWAY A MOTOR TOUR D by Henry Macnair Pdf

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Author : Henry Macnair
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1334998108

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The Scenic Motorway by Henry Macnair Pdf

Excerpt from The Scenic Motorway: A Motor Tour De Luxe, Featuring New York to Montreal, P. Q., The Berkshires and Adirondacks, the Green and White Mountains, the New England Coast The Scenic Motorway: A Motor Tour de Luxe, Featuring New York to Mon

Author : Loren M. Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475994476

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Beautiful Land of the Sky by Loren M. Wood Pdf

John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelseys journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in Kelseys personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

Author : Graham Hoppe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821446379

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Gone Dollywood by Graham Hoppe Pdf

Dolly Parton isn’t just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart of that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year. Parton’s prodigious talent and incredible celebrity have allowed her to turn her hometown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in America. The crux of Dollywood’s allure is its precisely calibrated Appalachian image, itself drawn from Parton’s very real hardscrabble childhood in the mountains of east Tennessee. What does Dollywood have to offer besides entertainment? What do we find if we take this remarkable place seriously? How does it both confirm and subvert outsiders’ expectations of Appalachia? What does it tell us about the modern South, and in turn what does that tell us about America at large? How is regional identity molded in service of commerce, and what is the interplay of race, gender, and class when that happens? In Gone Dollywood, Graham Hoppe blends tourism studies, celebrity studies, cultural analysis, folklore, and the acute observations and personal reflections of longform journalism into an unforgettable interrogation of Southern and American identity.

Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393355734

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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Pdf

Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor. In Sisters and Rebels, National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, who were “estranged and yet forever entangled” by their mutual obsession with the South. Tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past through to the contemporary moment, Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Grounded in decades of research, the family’s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Southern women.

Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469617688

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The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris Pdf

Discusses how food has shaped Southern identity, including the food slaves served in the Plantation South, how home economics and domestic science became part of the school curriculum in the South, and Southern-style food counterculture.

Author : Kathryn Newfont
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820341248

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Blue Ridge Commons by Kathryn Newfont Pdf

"In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.

Author : Karen J. Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738542245

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The Blue Ridge Parkway by Karen J. Hall Pdf

In the late 1890s, the Blue Ridge Parkway was envisioned by many as a great getaway and nature preserve. The concept materialized in the early 20th century, when John D. Rockefeller donated the first $5 million to begin purchasing land for the project. Located at the top of the great Appalachian ridges, the parkway covers 469 winding miles of mountains and meadows lined with lush wildflowers, old farms, and split-rail fences. Inspiring scenery makes for a journey rich in history and mountain culture.

Author : Randy Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493024612

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Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway by Randy Johnson Pdf

Miles and miles of trails in North Carolina and Virginia offer excellent hiking and interpretive opportunities along the most-visited national park in the country. This guide will help hikers of all abilities get off the road and into the woods.