The Shenandoah Valley conjures up a beautiful landscape and a resonant Civil War history. This guide delivers the best experiences in the area, peak to peak, from wonderful mountain flowers and streams, to rolling farmlands and white clapboard chapels, to tales of invention, scholarship, and military encounters.
Mary Alice Blackwell, features editor of The Daily Progress, was born in Staunton and now lives on the 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 collections and research specialist at the Science and Engineering Library of the University of Virginia, she has also worked in public relations and writes fiction in her spare time.