New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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1 Roanoke

This trip begins in

Roanoke, the main

urban hub of Southwest

Virginia, and continues

along the Blue Ridge

Parkway, explored in

Trip 25 (p299). Roanoke

is steadily becoming a

regional cultural center,

perhaps best exemplified

by the presence of the

Taubman Museum of

Art (www.taubmanmuseum.

org; 110 Salem Ave SE;

h10am-5pm Tue-Sat, to

9pm Thu & first Fridays; p).

The museum is set in

a futuristic glass-and-

The Crooked

Road

The.place.where.Kentucky,.Tennessee.and.Virginia.

kiss.is.a.veritable.hotbed.of.American.roots.music.

history,.thanks.to.the.vibrant.cultural.folkways.of.

the.Scots-Irish.who.settled.the.area.in.the.18th.

century..The.state-carved.Crooked.Road.carves.a.

winding.path.through.the.Blue.Ridge.Mountains.

into.the.Appalachians.and.the.heart.of.this.way.of.

life..

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