Introducing Shenandoah Valley
In local parlance: damn, but it’s pretty here. Arguably the most impressive landscape on the Eastern seaboard, this was the westward border of colonial America. The Scots-Irish frontiersman who settled these mountains were Highland Clearance refugees, and they and their descendants have always been suspicious of government and protective of their liberties. It’s a strange valley, where folks love God, guns, local universities (Sweet Briar, Virginia Tech, Washington and Lee, Randolph-Macon, Virginia Military Institute), Shakespeare companies and the sweet-smelling galax and laurel peaks of the Appalachians in equal measure.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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