| Description |
1 online resource (iv, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Barry M. Buxton -- Keynote presentations -- The future of the Parkway / Gary Everhardt -- Environmental concerns and the Blue Ridge Parkway / Stewart L. Udall -- Future initiatives of the National Park Services / William Penn Mott Jr. -- Design and planning -- The parkway : a uniquely American construct : is it obsolete? / Frank B. Burggraf -- Stanley Abbott and the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway / Leslie Gignoux -- Stanley Abbott and the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway / Douglas Swaim -- The Blue Ridge Parkway : a catalyst for environmental design innovation / John W. Bright -- The Blue Ridge Parkway in historical design perspective / E. Lynn Miller -- The Linn Cove Viaduct / Jean Muller -- Strategic planning : the means for seeing beyond 1987 / Gary W. Johnson -- Historical -- A new deal for the mountain folk : recollections of the resettlement administration / Gwen Russell Harvey and Alice Hoffman -- I am a part of the Parkway, and the Parkway is a part of me / Diane K. Gentry -- The North Carolina congressional delegation and the Blue Ridge Parkway / Philip A. Grant Jr. -- The Blue Ridge Parkway : mileposts and more / Pamela Frye -- The early days of parkway construction / Lester P. Lamm -- Early Appalachian photographers / Richard A. Straw -- Literary and folk culture -- The road in Appalachian lore and literature / H.R. Stoneback -- Bertha Cook, Blue Ridge National Heritage fellow / Thomas McGowan -- Mabry Hill as metaphor / Parks Lanier -- The folk tales of the Eastern Blue Ridge / Jody Brown and Rex Stephenson -- The perfect work / Thomas Rain Crowe -- Environmental and economic -- The spirit of the Blue Ridge / Gilbert Leebrick -- Land use attitudes of rural residents / James E. Shepherd -- Environmental quality points / Scott S. Weinberg -- Seasonal plant color change can give the Parkway its character / J. Dan Pitdlo -- Agriculture in the Blue Ridge Parkway / William O. Hooper -- Benefits sought by Blue Ridge Parkway tourists / Mark Bonn -- National concessioner policy in transition : an example from the Blue Ridge Parkway / Robert W. McLellan and Dominic Dottavio -- Notes concerning ruins of motion machinery in the Appalachian landscape / David P. Hill -- Student essays -- Harvard of Celo / Kelly Elizabeth Draughn -- Legends live on / Claudia Suzette Deyton -- Please ... don't pick the wildflowers / Marci Ledford |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.) -- Congresses
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| Subject |
United States -- Blue Ridge Parkway.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buxton, Barry M
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Beatty, Steven M
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| ISBN |
9781469638096 |
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1469638096 |
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