Author Shares Info On Where To Hook A Trout, More In Virginia
“Fishing Virginia’s Highlands,” M.W. Smith (University of Virginia Press, $12.95, 2007)
Author M.W. Smith twists a lure on a seemingly odd yet logical combination of Virginia waters in a new book.
“Fishing Virginia’s Highlands” (University of Virginia Press, $12.95) dips into the rocky Whitetop Laurel Creek in eastern Washington County, Va., while also roaming through trout streams of nearby Grayson and Smyth counties.
Smith writes about Big Tumbling Creek near Saltville: “Located in the upper corner of Smyth and Washington counties, Big Tumbling is a gorgeous stream that gets its name from the many pools, waterfalls, and runs that form as it ‘tumbles’ down from the spur atop the Clinch Mountain Range.”
Then, skipping many miles north, Smith also writes about the other “Highlands” of Virginia – the Alleghany Highlands – at Bath County, Alleghany County and Rockbridge County.
The result is an 87-page volume with maps, photos and road directions. It’s a neat and concise look on where you might hook a trout or land a whopping bass.
“The Shenandoah Valley & the Mountains of the Virginias: An Explorer’s Guide,” Jim Hargan (Countryman Press, $19.99, 2005)
Longtime travel writer Jim Hargan takes an encyclopedic approach to the mountains of Virginia with one of his latest releases, “The Shenandoah Valley & the Mountains of the Virginias.”
This 462-page volume takes daytrips from just outside Washington, D.C., down to the New River, the Blue Ridge Parkway and out west to Charleston, W.Va.
Hargan provides suggestions on where to stay, what to eat and where to go while searching across the mountains of both Virginia and West Virginia. Expect a little history, too, in this primer for getting out and seeing what the author calls a “wonderful region.”
“Building the Blue Ridge Parkway: Images of America,” Karen J. Hall and Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99, 2007)
If you have ever wondered how all the rocks were moved and where the dump trucks drove atop the Blue Ridge, Karen J. Hall’s “Building the Blue Ridge Parkway” is for you.
This 128-page treasure trove of behind-the-scenes construction pictures forgoes the usual premise of trying to make the Blue Ridge Parkway an ultimate blend of God’s handiwork and man’s creation.
Instead, the images are not always pretty.
This volume shows a frozen waterwheel at Mabry Mill and a root cellar in restoration at the Humpback Rocks Center. You’ll also find the Laurel Fork Viaduct under construction in Carroll County, Va.
Chapters include “Rock Slides and Weather,” “The Missing Link” and “Heavy Equipment.”
The author, Hall, has other historical books to her credit, including “Wythe County, Virginia” (Images of America) and “The Blue Ridge Parkway” (Images of America).
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