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Blue Ridge Parkway - Images of America
Item ID - 70542245

In the late 1890s, the Blue Ridge Parkway was envisioned by many as a great getaway and nature preserve. Since then, the Parkway has been, not only a major tourist destination, but a piece of American history. Find out more about the Parkway's origins, facts, and history of this nature preserve in this 128 page book filled with beautiful photos.
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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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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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Blue Ridge Stemwinder: An Illustrated History of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad and the Linville River Railway
Item ID - 77722722

Telling the story of Tweetsie Railroad and the East Tennessee Railway, this book documents the history of the standard gauge ET&WNC after the narrow gauge was gone and is richly illustrated with dozens of maps and hundreds of photographs.
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Grandfather Mountain: A Profile
Item ID - BKS-6001

by Miles Tager, 110 pages
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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

The most visited park in the National Parks system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina.
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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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The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm
Item ID - 71057879

Life in the steep hills of Appalachia has changed more in the last twenty years than in the previous two hundred.
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Time before History The Archaeology of North Carolina
Item ID - BKS-1026

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled more than 10,000 years ago, but because early inhabitants left no written record, their story must be painstakingly reconstructed from the fragmentary and fragile archaeological record they left behind.
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