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Elizabeth Hunter

Elizabeth Hunter’s love for and dedication to the land was a hallmark of her life.

Intimacy with the Land: A Small Bouquet to Helene Victims

May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.
Of the U.S. 421 bridge near Boone, North Carolina, Frank Troitino said the rockwork was too uniform, and was not a parkway “old job. . . . not the way they taught us."

Blue Ridge Parkway: An Immigrant’s Story

Here’s a story I never knew, until I started working on this article.
Guard walls were taken apart and reinforced to meet federal highway safety standards.Vegetation is crawling across them now, making them look as though they’ve been there forever.

The Rock Guard Walls

Here’s a story I’d partly forgotten, until I started rereading what I’d written about the Blue Ridge Parkway for this magazine—and one that bears repeating.
This view, looking south from Bluff Mountain, is of the North Carolina section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Alligator Rocks.

Blue Ridge Parkway: A Loving Lament

Elizabeth Hunter, who began contributing to this magazine with its first issue and served as its award-winning columnist until her retirement at the end of 2014, also wrote dozens of articles, with care, awe and love, about the Blue Ridge Parkway.
These Civilian Conservation Corps workers, circa 1940, loaded large trees into what would become Doughton Park, between mileposts 237 and 248.

Protecting A Vision And A Fine Planning Hand

A look at the original Blue Ridge Parkway landscape architect, Stanley Abbott.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

April 12, 2018

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