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Comments: 0 Views: 35Friday morning marked the kick off of a year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
At the Ravensford Overlook, officials began the anniversary with a Cherokee Indian ceremonial dance. The celebration continues today with an all-star benefit concert at 7:00 p.m. at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville. Grammy-award winning songwriter and musician Nanci Griffith and bluegrass legends Doyle Lawson, Sammy Shelor, Bryan Sutton, Tim Surrett, and Jim Van Cleve will all perform.
The 469-mile roadway that crosses through 29 counties from Waynesboro, VA to Cherokee, NC will be celebrated throughout 2010.
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More from nationalparkstraveler.com: “This weekend is the official BRP75 Opening Weekend, which features two major events being held in Ashville, North Carolina. Asheville has good reason to celebrate. It was 75 years ago this month that then-Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes announced that the parkway would pass through the Ashville vicinity, not track southwestward into Tennessee from Blowing Rock as a committee had recommended. This was incredibly good news to Asheville and other western North Carolina communities that had lobbied long and hard to bring the parkway—and visitor dollars—to the Depression-wracked region, which was (and is) heavily oriented to tourism.” |
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Jeff Fobes