Additional Resources

 
Organizations:
Blue Ridge Mountain Organizations:
Books:
  • Blue Ridge 2020: An Owner’s Manual, by Steve Nash. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
  • Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862, by Robert G. Tanner. Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 1996.
  • The Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains: An Explorer’s Guide, by Jim Hargan. Countryman Press, 2008.
  • Blue Ridge Mountains: America’s First Frontier by Jerry D. Greer, Mountain Trail Press, 2004
  • Music Makers of the Blue Ridge Plateau: (Images of America: Virginia) by Blue Ridge Music Makers Guild Inc., 2008.
  • Insiders’ Guide to Virginia’s Blue Ridge, by Mary Alice Blackwell and Anne Patterson Causey, 2005.
  • Bridge Crew: Growing UP in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1940’s and 50’s, by Samuel E. Shumate, 2006.
  • The Unofficial Guide to the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Region, by Bob Sehlinger and Joe Surkiewicz, 2001.
  • Blue Mountain Memories: Astory of a Blue Ridge Mountain and the people who live there, by F. Long Richard, 2006.
  • Wildflowers of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains, by Oscar W. Gupton and Fred C. Swope, 2002.
  • Blue Ridge Nature Journal: Reflections on the Appalachian Mountains in the Essays and Art, by George Ellison and Elizabeth Ellison, 2006.
  • Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, by Herbert Shellans, 2007.
  • Blue Ridge Folklife, by Ted Olson, 1998.
  • Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle, by Fred C. Fessell, 2003.
  • Park Profiles: Blue Ridge Range, by National Geographic, 1998.
  • The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, by Michael P Branch and Daniel J. Philippon, 1998.
  • Barefoot Boy: An Anthology of Blue Ridge Poems, by Larry Aaron, 2006.
  • Birds of Shanandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah National Park: A Field Guide, by Dr. Ernest P. Edwards, 2006
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