Download or read book Guide to the Geology and Natural History of the Blue Ridge Mountains written by Edgar W. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway or Skyline Drive visiting state and national parks or hike the Appalachian Trail, you will encounter an incredible variety of landscapes and one of the most diverse collections of flora and fauna found in temperate forests anywhere in the world. Full of rich detail, this beautifully illustrated, full-color guide to the region was written and designed for ease of use. Whether you're a first time visitor looking to enjoy and gain an understanding of the Parkway's spectacular views or a geology and nature enthusiast, this guide will be an invaluable companion.--
Download or read book From the Blue Ridge to the Beach written by Christopher M. Bailey and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven chapters explore the diverse geology of Virginia, from its Appalachian highlands to the Atlantic shore.
Download or read book The Blue Ridge Region of Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Ridge Commons written by Kathryn Newfont and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Blue Ridge Chronicles written by Rex Bowman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the highlanders in Virginias western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty, and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Colorful characters abound, from folks in Independence who have a decades-old tradition of racing outhouses, to the brawlers in St. Paul who once gave the town a reputation for world-class wickedness, to the purveyors of Roanokes Texas Tavern who have never in seventy years put ketchup on their hamburgers. Blue Ridge Chronicles is a delightful look at how the lively have lived in Southwest Virginias backcountry.
Download or read book The Foothills of the Blue Ridge in Fauquier County Virginia written by Clara S. McCarty and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Makers of the Blue Ridge Plateau written by Blue Ridge Music Makers Guild and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1920s, Ralph Peer and the Victor Recording Company visited the city of Bristol to look for new talent. They stumbled upon Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, two future legends of country music; however, other amazing musicians were unable to make the trip to Bristol for the auditions because of work and family obligations. For the locals, music was more than a way to earn fame and fortune; the music was part of the fabric of life in this rural environment. Some individuals did become famous, including the Stoneman Family, who recorded "The Ship That Didn't Return/ The Titanic," and Henry Whitter, who recorded "The Wreck of Old 97," but that was never the focus. The songs they played and created accompanied an entire generation through the Great Depression and World War II and into the vigorous growth of the 1950s and 1960s. All of these musicians influenced the birth, growth, and continued development of the Galax Fiddlers Convention, which is known around the world by old-time mountain music fans.
Download or read book This Pleasant Land written by Max S. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is being published posthumously and includes recent and earlier writings by the author, Max Thomas. He wrote this 250-year history the way he thought and talkedżlike a conversation he might have had with a visitor on his back porch. Max Thomas was a fifth-generation descendant of the first settlers on the middle Blue Ridge plateau in southwestern Virginia. He was a farmer and school teacher and lived 93 years on the same piece of land there. Since he was a boy, he was told stories about his ancestors and their neighbors, men and women who came to, and lived in, a pleasant and rugged land during the 18th and 19th centuries. The rest of the history, he lived it himselfżthrough most of the 20th century. This is a local history written within the context of what was going on in the outside world. The book begins with the early settlers in the Blue Ridge and progresses chronologically through the years. It includes chapters on marriage and family life, early schools, the War Between the States, and Reconstruction. Later chapters focus on the 1920s and 30s, building the Blue Ridge Parkway, and on world wars. The last part of the book has chapters on specific topics, such as old-time music, the language, transportation, the economy, old-time tools, home life, women and their lives, disease, old-time medicine, and death and dying. This book portrays a way of life in a remote, Appalachian area and helps preserve that heritage.
Download or read book Slave Labor on Virginia s Blue Ridge Railroad written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1849 and 1859, Virginia raced to pierce the Blue Ridge Mountains by rail and reach the Ohio River. At least 300 enslaved people labored involuntarily toward that goal, along with 1,500 Irish immigrants. The state leased the labor of enslaved Virginians from local slaveholders, including four connected with nearby University of Virginia. Blue Ridge Tunnel and Blue Ridge Railroad historian Mary E. Lyons explored hundreds of primary documents to write the first nonfiction book about slave labor on a specific antebellum railroad. She shares hundreds of enslaved people's names, traces where they toiled along the line and describes their backbreaking--and sometimes fatal--tasks.
Download or read book Blue Ridge written by T. R. Pearson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hogarth, Virginia Deputy Sheriff Ray Tatum begins his investigation into the discovery of a complete set of human bones on the Appalachian Trail, while at the same time his cousin Paul is summoned to New York to identify the dead body of the son he scarcely knew. 22,500.
Download or read book Blue Ridge Country written by Jean Thomas and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blue Ridge Country" by Jean Thomas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Blue Ridge Parkway Virginia and North Carolina written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over in the Country written by Becky Cannaday Merchant and published by Mariner Companies, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Over in the Country? is a rich collection of stories about life on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century.In 1904 Paul and Eula Simms bought one hundred acres of raw land on rolling hills with a valley level enough for a house and a garden. To make their farm prosper, they brought their experiences growing up in the country, eagerness to try new ideas and inventions, willingness to work hard, and determination to succeed; almost as essential were the pleasure they took in good fun, good food, a healthy sense of humor, and, every now and then, a bit of moonshine to temper the relentless routine of farm work.
Download or read book Out from the Blue Ridge written by Morris Sylvanus Kessler and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN NATURE WRITING FROM VIRGINIAS BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS AND SHENANDOAH VALLEY EXHIBITION CATALOGUE written by University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Department and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Ridge Parkway written by Charles W. Maynard and published by Mountain Trail Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic exploration of the Blue Ridge Parkway includes vista views of the Appalachian Mountains, pictures of waterfalls and wildflowers, and essays by the photographers.
Download or read book Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains written by Camelia McNeil Elliott and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every summer, Camelia McNeil Elliott, spent a month with her beloved grandparents in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. While visiting Mabry Mill¿s rotating waterwheel, Elliott imagined Lizzie Mabry grinding white corn for customers in 1908. Inspired, she wrote stories about Appalachian mountaineers and her family, such as her great-great grandmother¿s incarceration in a corn crib by Civil War soldiers, her grandparent¿s 1917 elopement in a horse drawn carriage during a treacherous mountain ice storm, and her father¿s jail house shenanigans at the Floyd County Courthouse. Elliott¿s book tells captivating and intriguing stories of Virginia history, culture, traditions, and everyday living common to all mountain families.
