Insiders' Guide® to Virginia's Blue Ridge (Insiders' Guide Series)

For sheer beauty and tranquility, nothing equals the flora, fauna, rivers, and lakes of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley. But this region--once home to Thomas Jefferson and Booker T. Washington--is also rich in history and culture. This guide details everything this area has to offer for longtime residents, visitors, and retirees.

Mary Alice Blackwell, features editor of The Daily Progress, was born in Staunton and now lives on the other side of the ridge, in the Charlottesville area.

Anne Patterson Causey came to the Charlottesville area by way of Virginia Beach. A writer and research specialist at the Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia, she has also worked in public relations and writes fiction in her spare time.