PRESS RELEASE FROM UNC ASHEVILLE:
Taking Another Look: New Views of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a talk by Anne Mitchell Whisnant, will be presented at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 25, in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. Whisnant, adjunct associate professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill, will discuss the complicated and often contentious process that brought the parkway into being. Audience questions and discussion will be welcome.
Whisnant is the author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (UNC Press, 2006), the first serious study of the development of the National Park Service’s most visited site. She also is the scholarly adviser to the online portal “Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway,” at http://docsouth.unc.edu/blueridgeparkway.
This event, presented at OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, is sponsored by the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA). A $5 donation to benefit the WNCHA is requested at the door. For more information, visit olliasheville.com or wnchistory.org.
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