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Enlarge Image		 _Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (paperback)
Item ID - 73871265

Highlighting the roles of key players and stakeholders, Whisnant explores the design and routing of the road; relations among landowners, business interests, and government agencies; environmental impacts; and historical and cultural representation and interpretation.
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Enlarge Image		 _When the Parkway Came by Anne Mitchell and David Whisnant
Item ID - 74056507

The first-ever Blue Ridge Parkway book for children. This book is based on a letter written in 1937 from a local farmer to President Roosevelt.
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Enlarge Image		 A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses and Bertha Cone and their Blowing Rock Manor
Item ID - BKS-6007

by Philip T. Noblitt, 216 pages
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Enlarge Image		 A Park Ranger's Life: Thirty-two Years Protecting Our National Parks
Item ID - 82943450

A Park Ranger's Life is drawn from the thirty-two-year career of National Park Ranger Bruce W. Bytnar. In this book you will discover what it takes to be a park ranger and what you can do to help protect and preserve our national heritage.
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Enlarge Image		 Blue Ridge 2020 An Owner's Manual
Item ID - BKS-1025

This book describes journalist Steve Nash's vision for a healthy future in one of the nation's most popular natural regions.
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Enlarge Image		 Building the Blue Ridge Parkway - Images of America
Item ID - 70552879

Karen J. Hall, 128 pages. The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at Cumberland Knob. As part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, this project was intended to provide jobs throughout the region.
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Enlarge Image		 Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Item ID - BKS-1002

by Timothy Silver, 346 pages
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Enlarge Image		 Slow Road Home - A Blue Ridge Book of Days
Item ID - 90139502

If you live in or long for the southern mountains; if you find yourself drawn toward the pace and pleasures of unhurried places; if you long for belonging to a particular landscape-then you will feel at home in this "memoir of place" from Floyd County, Virginia.
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Enlarge Image		 The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
Item ID - BKS-1090

Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties.
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