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August 2012

Mountain Laurel

Growing Rose Trees

“In bitter weather, the leaves of rhododendrons roll into thin black cigars of misery and present a singularly depressing appearance. There is no need for a thermometer to judge the temperature if these particular plants are in sight.”
Stone Guardrail on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Something There is That Doesn’t Love a Wall

Twenty-three years after writing a brief historical summary of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s early years, Ed Abbuehl told an interviewer that the parkway represented “a magnificent example of cooperation.”
Parkway History

Set in Stone

Stonemasons , engineers, landscape architects, surveyors and so many others were part of the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, between 1935 and 1987, milepost 1 to milepost 469, Cumberland Knob groundbreaking to Linn Cove Viaduct completion.

Our Ancient and Settled Landscape

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.
Blue Ridge Parkway

Not Just Another Road

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.
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