Elizabeth Hunter, who began contributing to this magazine with its first issue and served as its awardwinning columnist until her retirement at the end of 2014, also wrote dozens of articles, with care, awe and love, about many facets of the Blue Ridge Parkway. And while she still visits frequently in her own life, PAT & CHUCK BLACKLEY we consider ourselves lucky to have convinced her to make another foray on behalf of the magazine. This view, looking south from Bluff Mountain, is of the North Carolina section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Alligator Rocks. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 27