Super-Scenic Motorway

A Blue Ridge Parkway History

• Author(s): Anne Mitchell Whisnant,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 464
• ISBN_10: 0807898422
  ISBN_13: 9780807898420
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , Travel / United States / South / General ,

Description:... 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.