LEDFORD PUBLISHED IN BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY BOOK

Brenda Kay Ledford's poetry, "Holy Ground," and "Full Wolf Moon," were published in the BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY coffee table book.

Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway sponsored this book project to celebrate 25 years of service to the Parkway.  The silver anniversary commemorative edition included photographs, poetry, and prose by 47 writers.

The photography of Dr. Nye Simmons, a physician from Knoxville, TN, was featured.  He photographed the Parkway for 10 years.  This book brought the best images of his portfolio to the pages, paired with selection of the region's leading authors.

According to John Muir, "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul."

For millions of people, the Blue Ridge Parkway is such a place.  The 469-miles, carved across the Blue Ridge Mountains between 1935 and 1987, connects two national parks-Shenandoah in western Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains in western North Carolina.

Today there are 10,000 members of Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway and over 2,000 volunteers.  For more information about Friends, contact:  800-228-PARK (7275), www.BlueRidgeFRIENDS.org.