Photographs by J. Scott Graham, Essays by Elizabeth C. Hunter
Hardcover, 11x11 format, 144 pages, over 100 photos, $39.95
With over 50 years of combined experience covering the Blue Ridge Parkway, J. Scott Graham and Elizabeth C. Hunter are still discovering America’s most visited national park site. Share their many journeys as they reveal colorful, new stories and images sure to entertain and fascinate, whether you are a longtime acquaintance of, or have just recently begun to enjoy, the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Excerpt from Blue Ridge Parkway, Road to Discovery
Built in segments over the course of 50 years, the Blue Ridge Parkway connects Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Park on a 469-mile ride through some of the most beautiful scenery in the Appalachian Mountains. With an excess of 20 million annual visitors, the Parkway entertains more travelers than any other unit in the national park system.
Since 1988, I too, have been exploring elements contained within this linear park. Though I have covered every mile from north to south—and south to north—and in every season, I have yet to reach a final terminus . . . I have yet to complete my journey along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
What captures me most as a photographer is not the typical overlook with oceanic views of mountain piled upon mountain, but is instead, the complete unpredictability of what I might find. Visual phenomena arise at the most unusual times and in the most unexpected places. The Parkway is a never ending avenue of surprises, and has become a road to discovery—the greatest of all human adventures.
—J. Scott Graham |
