Today I drove up the valley from Roanoke, following modern interstate 81 from the southern Shenandoah all the way through West Virginia and Maryland to Pennsylvania, to Gettysburg, the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in the American Civil War. I'm attending the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership's conference, seeking out interesting material for our November/December Civil War issue and interviewing some attending writers and historians.
Blue Ridge Country magazine editor Cara Ellen Modisett grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was introduced to the magazine by her uncle, an attorney and photographer, when she was in college.