Driving Through Time Overlooks
The Blue Ridge Parkway is punctuated along its 469 miles by “overlooks,” where visitors stop their cars and get out to see a view, inspect a historical site, and perhaps read a little sign about what they are seeing. The following "overlooks” – which are short exhibits that highlight Parkway photographs, maps, newspaper articles or other documents – provide insightful, provocative, and engaging views of carefully-focused aspects of Parkway history. They invite you to peer into the Parkway’s past.
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Asheville: What's the Parkway Have to Do With It?
by Katy Vance and Amanda Foster
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Behind the Scenes of the "Scenic": An Unnatural Road in a Staged Landscape
by Hélène Ducros
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The Blue Ridge Parkway Experience
by Katy Vance and Amanda Foster
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For the Benefit of the Public: Competition between Tourism and Lumber in Pisgah
by Andrew Wells
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Grandfather Mountain and the Parkway's "Missing Link"
by Anne Mitchell Whisnant
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Logging, Tourism, and the Blue Ridge Parkway in Linville, North Carolina
by Samantha Leonard with Ben Beidler and Morgan E. Jones. Edited by David Whisnant
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MISSION 66 and the Blue Ridge Parkway
by Daniele Lauro
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Parkway Development and the Eastern Band of Cherokees
by Anne Mitchell Whisnant
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Photographer Spotlight: Abbie Rowe
by Meghan Cunningham, Justin Hui, Samantha Leonard, and Jacqui Moskel. Edited by Anne Mitchell Whisnant
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Reinterpreting the Caudill Cabin
by Cassandra McGuire
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Routing the Parkway, 1934
by Anne Mitchell Whisnant
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The Unbuilt Blue Ridge Parkway
Special freestanding exhibit created by Anne Mitchell Whisnant and the students in her fall 2013 Introduction to Public History class at UNC-Chapel Hill in collaboration with Pamella Lach and graduate students in UNC's Digital Innovation Lab.
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We Drivers: Alleghany County's New Relationship with the Automobile
by Michael Penny
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Women's Groups and Memorial Forests Along the Parkway
by Shannon Harvey
