As I am reading a very engaging book about the WPA and the New Deal, a visit to one of its crowning achievements was extra fulfilling. I bow to the ancestors, those who came before us and had the foresight to provide for future generations a gem along the spine of the mountains of Virginia.

It may have been 93 degrees in Charlottesville but on Hawksbill in Shenadoah National Park it was 69 and as always gorgeous