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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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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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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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Blue Ridge Music Trails Finding a Place in the Circle
Item ID - BKS-1017
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in America. This book is a comprehensive traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. The book leads readers to more than 160 venues and events filled with bluegrass and string band music, ballad singing, fiddling, shape-note singing, gospel music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance.
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Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir
Item ID - 81431407
One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the author's one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the 469-mile road, along with his observations and recollections regarding the Parkway, the most visited unit of the National Park Service.
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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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Grandfather Mountain Booklet
Item ID - 53929000
This 20 page information booklet details the beauty, scenery and surroundings of Grandfather Mountain. Includes color images on every page.
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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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Ray Hicks Master Storyteller of the Blue Ridge
Item ID - BKS-1028
Ray Hicks, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where they have lived for more than 200 years.
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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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Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
Item ID - 73830372
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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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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That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace: The Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina
Item ID - 90863291
In 1933 an Act of Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to counter the hopelessness felt by millions of young men in the depth of the Great Depression. These young men (age 18 to 25) were set to the task of restoring land wasted by over farming, clear cut timbering, and erosion. The results of their efforts are recreational resources such as the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Paperback, 167 pages, by Harley E. Jolley)
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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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