Super-scenic motorway : a Blue Ridge Parkway history /
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 popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built wit.
| Основен автор: | Whisnant, Anne Mitchell. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2006.
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Super-scenic motorway. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: A new trip along a beloved road
- Roads, parks, and tourism: a southern scenic parkway in a national context
- The scenic is political: the parkway and Ashville's tourism industry
- We ain't picked none on the scenic: parkway ideals and local realities
- By the grace of God and a Mitchell County jury: Little Switzerland, regional tourism, and the parkway
- The crowning tourch of interest: parkway development, cultural landscaping, and the eastern band of Cherokees
- Remembering the Peaks of Otter: telling history on the parkway landscape
- From stump town to Carolina's top scenic attraction: private interests and the public good at Grandfather Mountain
- Epilogue: The parkway's past, its present, and the ongoing search for the public good.