Acknowledgements

Thank you to our Storied Landscapes professors, Ken Cooper and Joseph Wiebe, for all of your wisdom, help and guidance throughout this project. Thank you to Leah Tams for being our WordPress fairy godmother and for helping to iron out all of the kinks in our website. Thank you to Ellen Pearson, Irene Rossell and Patrick Bahls for making this opportunity possible for us.

Thank you to Gene Hyde and Colin Reeve with Special Collections and University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) for their help and advice throughout this project. Thank you also to the folks with the Special Collections at Pack Memorial Library for their help with archival research.

Reilly Strong and Katie Caruso are undergraduate students of Environmental Studies and Biology, respectively, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA). Please contact us with any questions or comments at rstrong@unca.edu and kcaruso@unca.edu.

Digital Tools

On each of the pages, Landscape, Vegetations, The Sky, and Human Narratives, we embedded Cascade Theme Story Map powered by ESRI. This digital tool allowed a stream of narrative, images, video, and an ESRI powered map to tell the story of Craggy Gardens by unraveling its different layers.

Bibliography 

Home Page

• “Above the Clouds on the Craggy Mountains, Altitude 5494 Feet, Near Asheville, N.C. in ‘The Land of the Sky‘” by Herbert W. Pelton, 1911, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library, Oversize Box F
• “COPLACDigital Logo” courtesy of COPLACDigital
• All other images by Katie Caruso and Reilly Strong, April 2018

Landscape

• All other images by Katie Caruso, April 2018
• “Sixty-Four Selected Views of Western North Carolina” by Herbert Pelton, 1915 courtesy of D. Hiden Ramsey Photographic Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, SpecColl F261.S69
• “1914 Craggy – Blue Ridge Skyline from East Rock” by D. Hiden Ramsey family courtesy of D. Hiden Ramsey Photographic Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, P80.5.1 002RA
• “View of Craggy Gardens, Craggy Pinnacle and Craggy Dome” by Elliot Lyman Fisher, 1949, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library
• “Blue Ridge Parkway at Craggy Gardens” by Walter Cline, 1959, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library
• “Bedrock Geologic Map of the Craggy Pinnacle 7.5-minute Quadrangle, North Carolina” by Bart L. Cattanach, Richard M. Wooten, G. Nicholas Bozdog and Abigail R. Bullard, 2013 courtesy of NCGS Publications, North Carolina Environmental Quality
• “Grassy Bald Succession” by Chris Ulrey, Ph.D., Vegetation Specialist, Blue Ridge Parkway, used with permission
• All other images by Katie Caruso and Reilly Strong, April 2018

Vegetation

• “Rhododendron in Bloom, Craggy Gardens” by C.H. Ruth, 1950-60, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID AB034
• “View of Craggy Gardens. Craggy Pinnacle (left) and Craggy Dome (right) in left background” by Elliot Lyman Fisher, 1949, courtesy of Asheville Print Collection, North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID I034-8
• “View of a woman (maybe Stuart Hensley?) at the Craggy Gardens” by John F. Barber, 1940s,  courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID I326-5
• 1. “Dead chestnut tree” by Garrett T. Smathers, August 1959 courtesy of The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway
• 2. “Dead chestnut tree” by Garrett T. Smathers, August 1959 courtesy of The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway
• 3. “Dead chestnut trees” by Garrett T. Smathers, March 1959 courtesy of The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway
• 4. “Dead chestnut trees” by Garrett T. Smathers, August 1960 courtesy of The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway
• “Forest Service Commended for Preserving Hemlocks” from Asheville Citizen Times, 1961, courtesy of D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• All other images by Katie Caruso and Reilly Strong, April 2018

Sky

• “The Land of the Sky Asheville NC [Cover]” by Frank Presbrey, 1920s, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Special Collections virtual record
• “With Pen and Camera Thro’ The ‘Land of the Sky‘” by Holman D. Waldron, 1904, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA), SpecColl F259.W35
• All other images and videos by Katie Caruso and Reilly Strong, April 2018

Human Narratives

• “Jerome Dykeman with his younger half-sister, the author, Wilma Dykleman” courtesy of Jerome Dykeman Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Panoramic View of the Blue Ridge Parkway” courtesy of L. C. LeCompte Postcard Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) G-211 ; E-12081

Recreation and the Parkway

• “Scenes Along Blue Ridge Parkway,” L. C. LeCompte Postcard Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) ID P77.5, number 375
• “7-288-D” courtesy of The Unwritten Records, The National Archives
• “Typical Parkway Plan” by N. Newton, 1971, courtesy of Urban Echoes on the Blue Ridge Parkway, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Craggy Mountains from Drive, Mountain Meadows Inn, Near Asheville, N.C.” by Herbert W. Pelton, 1912, published by Southern Post Card Co., Asheville, NC,  courtesy of L. C. LeCompte Postcard Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) ID P77.5, B-147; A-35991
• Mountaineer to Stanley W. Abbott, 1953 courtesy of Parks and Parkways: A Creative Field Even When the Task is to Avoid Creation, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
• “A Mountaineer of the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Eastern States” painted and copyrighted by Mrs. B King Couper
• courtesy of L. C. LeCompte Postcard Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) ID P77.5, E-9720
• “1914 Craggy – View Rock” by D. Hiden Ramsey Family, 1914, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) 002RA
• “View of Craggy Gardens. Craggy Pinnacle (left) and Craggy Dome (right) in left background” by Elliot Lyman Fisher, estimated date 1949, courtesy of Asheville Post Card Collection, North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library
• 1. “Rhododendron in Bloom – Craggy Gardens” by Walter Cline, 1957, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID AB724
• 2. also “Rhododendron in Bloom – Craggy Gardens” by Walter Cline, 1957, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID AB726
• 3. “Blue Ridge Parkway at Craggy Gardens” by Walter Cline, 1959, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID AB725
• 4.  “Rhododendron at Craggy Gardens, Blue Ridge Parkway, NC” by Walter Cline, 1950-60, courtesy of North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library ID AB044
• View of Blue Ridge Parkway and Craggy Dome, Asheville Citizen-Times, 1958, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Scenic Area” by James G. Hollandsworth, Asheville Citizen Times, April 12, 1961 courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Craggy Pinnacle and Rhododendron in Bloom, Near Asheville, N.C., ‘In the Land of the Sky’” published by Deuel News Co., Asheville, NC courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) 107; 25869N
• All other images and videos by Katie Caruso and Reilly Strong, April 2018

Historical Activism

• “Timber Sales Prospectus” by NC National Forest courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Preserving of a Forest Asked, Selective Cutting Said Needed” from Asheville Citizen Times, 1958, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• Letter from C.H. Wharton to Jerome Dykeman, 1961, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• Newspaper Clippings from Asheville Citizen Times, 1961, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Resolution” by William Nedford, 1961, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Letter from Harvey Broome to Jerome Dykeman”, 1961, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)
• “Seasons Greetings” from Harvey and Anne Broome addressed to Jerome Dykeman, 1961, courtesy of D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA)