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Visitors spend over $2.3 billion annually in communities adjacent to the Parkway. Photo by Todd Bush
“Motoring the Blue Ridge Parkway” Exhibit Grand Opening
Haywood County, NC • Near Milepost 443
Dates
Fri, Apr 30, 2010
9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Cost
Free
Contact
Wheels Through Time Museum
Matt Walksler
828.926.6266
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http://www.WheelsThroughTime.com
Location
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Wheels Through Time Museum
62 Vintage Lane
Maggie Valley, NC
On April 30, 2010, Wheels Through Time (WTT) Transportation Museum opens a year-long exhibit entitled Motoring the Blue Ridge Parkway. The exhibit will showcase elements of Parkway history, including construction of the 469-mile roadway, its evolving role as the most visited of our national scenic motorways, and its importance as an international destination and gateway to the communities bordering its route. The exhibit will include historical photographs and documents and many of the period WTT machines driven and ridden on the Parkway over the past 75 years.
The exhibit’s goal is to demonstrate the natural linkage of the Blue Ridge Parkway with WTT, one of America’s premier transportation museums. WTT’s goal is demonstration of its 300+ motorcycles and automobiles – components of America’s 100-year love affair with transportation – joined with three underlying goals for the 75th celebration: joint celebration of Parkway history, demonstration of support for the Parkway, and a public vision of a sustained Parkway future. This combination – offered in Maggie Valley, the southern anchor of the Parkway – will please regular visitors to the museum and offer a unique educational experience to all the parkway visitors.
WTT is honored to partner with the Blue Ridge Parkway 75th Celebration. Our exhibit, Motoring the Blue Ridge Parkway, offers the opportunity to demonstrate the dramatic history and importance of this national heritage motorway, the vehicles that have traveled it, and our visions of committed support for a vibrant Parkway future.
