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Parkway visitors have their own remembrances of the Blue Ridge Parkway; in a sense, their own heritage paths -- their favorite places which are often childhood memories.

Parkway staff at the Gillespie Gap Ranger Station, 1957.  Courtesy of the Foundation ArchivesThe Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation collects stories and memories because people add a historical dimension to the Parkway, not unlike the physical dimension and experience that overlooks add to scenery.

 

FRANCES, The Mountain Storm of the Century - by Barry McAlister, an eye-witness account of the flooding of the Linville Falls Visitor Center

Linville Falls at normal levels

Linville Falls, September 8, 2004
Plunge Basin Overlook

Linville Falls, October 5, 2004
Plunge Basin Overlook

 

"OUR THANKSGIVING PLACE": The Peaks of Otter - written by Elizabeth Hunter from interviews of Barton and Barbara Middleton, Mary Mann -- 15 years of a family tradition

OUR PERFECT WEDDING! -- by David and Christine Justice

 

 

 

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