Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway HistoryUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M10 2 - 464 pages 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. |
Contents
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The Parkway and Ashevilles Tourism Industry | 52 |
Parkway Ideals and Local Realities | 108 |
Little Switzerland Regional Tourism and the Parkway | 156 |
Parkway Development Cultural Landscaping and the Eastern Band of Cherokees | 183 |
Telling History on the Parkway Landscape | 214 |
Private Interests and the Public Good at Grandfather Mountain | 263 |
Epilogue The Parkways Past Its Present and the Ongoing Search for the Public Good | 326 |
Notes | 331 |
Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 417 |
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