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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Shenandoah National ParkEmma Susan Weakley on the porch of the family homestead at Big Meadows (ca 1920)
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Shenandoah National Park
Mountain Residents
Myrtle Reynolds and others.

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Myrtle Reynolds and others.

"Miriam M. Sizer: Patroness or Patronizing"
by Reed Engle, Cultural Resource Specialist
from the Resource Management Newsletter, July 1996

"Thoughts on Whiskey"
by Reed Engle, Cultural Resource Specialist
from the Resource Management Newsletter, April 1996

"Survey of Rural Mountain Settlement"
by Audrey J. Horning, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

When Past is Present :
Archaeology of the Displaced in Shenandoah National Park
by Audrey J. Horning,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/ The Queen's University of Belfast

 
A closeup of a mountain laurel blossom along Shenandoah's Skyline Drive.  

Did You Know?
Although it’s native to these mountains, much of the beautiful mountain laurel you see blooming along Skyline Drive in June was planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

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