Mountain Folk and Log Cabins Ping List
The web site is beautiful and wonderfully done . . . decades ago I had a motorcycle and would take weekend trips through the Shenandoah Valley, and was taken away by its beauty. I just love all these historical photos.
*ping of interest*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1iEi8yWyw&feature=related
“Shenandoah” sung by the great Jo Stafford. Arrangement by her husband, Paul Weston.
Thanks for posting the link to those old photos, which were a fine sight for these eyes born and raised there.
And then came progress. The Shenandoah today is pretty much strip development along I-81, which is a bumper to bumper truck corridor. And that’s the rural parts — a quarter of the Valley has been eaten by Harrisonburg.
Thanks for the link — as I commented on the Journal, it’s sort of amazing how “old” things looked even as recent as 1941.
My first visit to the Valley was 1962 when my brother was considering going to W&L. My mother piled us all into the station wagon to make a visit in late March. It was miserable weather as we left Wilmington, DE... When we got to Northern VA, spring had sprung and it was just beautiful. We took the Skyline Drive south from Front Royal and drove all the way down to Waynesboro, I suppose, before getting off and catching the local roads to Lexington. I remember the views of the Valley on both sides of the Blue Ridge was just stunning.
I would later return to get my masters at UVA and fell into even deeper love of the Blue Ridge and Shendandoah. And yes, much has been lost to commercialization and I-81 and I-64 but it is still some of the most beautiful land in our country.
BTTT