Blue Ridge Parkway
I made two major life decisions in the summer of 1975, both of them related to my career and my dedication to the Blue Ridge Parkway. These were, in fact, decisions that today make me part of the parkway community celebrating our anniversary this year.
Gary Johnson remembers the day in the spring of 1975 when the chairman of Virginia Tech’s landscape architecture department announced that the Blue Ridge Parkway was looking for student landscape architects who wanted summer jobs.
Design runs in the blood, perhaps. Stanley Abbott, a young-faced Cornell graduate from New England, took on the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway while still in his 20s, hired as the parkway’s acting superintendent and first resident landscape archite...
Blue Ridge Parkway know the immediate draw: the views. But dig deeper and you’ll find the infamous mountains are rich with Civil War history as intriguing as the scenery.
469 miles winding along the ridgelines of two states, the Blue Ridge Parkway spans not only mountain ranges and county lines, but also spans decades in time, years that saw technological advances and artistic movements, wars in foreign countries and ...
There are birds, and then there are birds - guaranteed head turners. An adult bald eagle, for instance: head and tail gleaming white as fresh-fallen snow on a bright winter morning; impossibly long, dark wings held flat as a board.
When 70-year-old Whit Sizemore was a little boy, he climbed an apple tree to watch something amazing – the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway. He’d never seen the like of the bulldozers and steam shovels construction crews brought to build the road t...
The Fool in the Woods, aka Blue Ridge Country editor in chief Kurt Rheinheimer, is back with more great woodland information and secrets, this time reporting on how Virginia's Devil's Marbleyard was formed.
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