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Mountain Peeks

By Susan M. Thigpen © 1990

Issue: January, 1990

Mountain Peeks is a new column that will appear from time to time to give you a glimpse of people and places in the Blue Ridge in an album setting. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. about sending in photographs to be included at some future date.

E.R. Bowman, Meadows of Dan, Virginia, about age 16 posed for this photo with gun and liquor bottles. Year is unknown. (Ella Boyd's photograph.) E.R. Bowman, Meadows of Dan, Virginia, about age 16 posed for this photo with gun and liquor bottles. Year is unknown. (Ella Boyd's photograph.)
Miss Addie Wood of Mayberry Trading Post at mile 180-181, Blue Ridge Parkway posed for this photo with an old crank phone on the wall at the Trading Post. Miss Addie Wood of Mayberry Trading Post at mile 180-181, Blue Ridge Parkway posed for this photo with an old crank phone on the wall at the Trading Post.
Notice detail of this hand made latch on the rough weather beaten boards of a barn door. Notice detail of this hand made latch on the rough weather beaten boards of a barn door.