Answer at Once: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land, the residents began writing letters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934931
• ISBN13: 9780813934938
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 21 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher