Blue Ridge Country - July/August 2018 - 32

30
PHOTOS, FUN, FIRSTS AND MORE

COVERS
30 YEARS

and a Note on What's inside The Issue

You put together a magazine six times a year for 30
years, you have some memories, some inside-baseballtype notes and other recollections. Blue Ridge Country
Editor in Chief Kurt Rheinheimer uses some favorite
covers as a launch point to do some recollecting on those
three decades.

By KURT RHEINHEIMER

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BLUERIDGECOUNTRY.COM

WORTH
A CLICK

For links to many of the
stories mentioned in
this piece, please go to
BlueRidgeCountry.com/
CoverStories

JUNE/JULY 1988:
VOLUME I,
NUMBER 1

The Linn
Cove
Viaduct
Photographed by
GRANDFATHER
MOUNTAIN OWNER
HUGH MORTON

A few months after its
ribbon cutting on September 11, 1987 completed the Blue Ridge
Parkway, what better
image to open the
inaugural edition of a
magazine conceived
by a boy who grew
up "12 miles outside
of Asheville on Turkey
Creek Road." Richard Wells, who is still
owner of the company
and the magazine,
said in his welcome:
"What could be more
wonderful-more
Americanly wonderful-than mom and
dad, two brothers and
a sister, a picnic lunch
in the trunk of a 1954
Oldsmobile Super 88,
and the beauty of the
Blue Ridge Parkway before them?" This cover,
by the way, would be
just the first of six over
the 30 years to present
the Linn Cove Viaduct.



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