Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Oral History Interview with Ted Pease, November 5, 2000
| Transcript (28 p.) | |
| Complete Audio File (MP3 format) | Unavailable |
| Abstract | New York native Ted K. Pease worked in the Smoky Mountains before coming to work on the Blue Ridge Parkway in June 1938 as a project landscape architect. Pease talks about the contention between Tennessee and North Carolina over the location of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Overall, Pease gives a detailed account of the decisions that went into landscape development. He talks about how the design plan was established and how the landscaping crew worked with the construction crew. Pease talks about how they determined which plants to use by surveying the area to find the indigenous species. He talks about the considerations that were given to animal life and drainage and erosion sites along the parkway. Pease also talks about the relationship with the Bureau of Public Roads. |
| Date | November 5, 2000 |
| Interviewee | Pease, Ted |
| Interviewee occupation | Landscape developer and park horticulturalist |
| Interviewee DOB | November 21, 1909 |
| Interviewer | Myers, Mary |
| Subject | Landscape development Flora Bureau of Public Roads |
