Blue Ridge Parkway Journeys

With most older adults (I am 57), I have never had trouble in calling them by their first names. I tried once by using “Mr. Morton’s” first name, “Hugh” — it didn’t feel right or feel good in the least. Harris Prevost, who has worked at Mr. Morton’s side for over 35 years, as an operations specialist for Grandfather Mountain has never called him by any other name. Because of “Mr. Morton”, the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundations exists today. To him, I will always be personally grateful.

Mr. Hugh Morton posing at the Linn Cove Viaduct; photographer unknown – possibly Jerry Burns; or could have been self photo. From Jerry Burns CollectionThe University of North Carolina library has launched a new web log entitled “A View to Hugh.” The objective of the blog is to keep the public informed about progress being made in sorting and cataloguing the tremendous number of negatives and slides amassed by Mr. Hugh Morton in his 70 years of picture taking, and to enlist help from his friends in identifying the people and events captured by Hugh’s lens.

Guests to the site are invited to add their comments as they go. The interactive nature of the medium is clearly contributing to the cataloguing process as Morton’s friends and relatives chime in with bits and pieces of trivia about photographs that the bloggers have posted for feedback.

To see the blog for yourself, visit the University of North Carolina library on-line.

Examine the Gandfather Newsletter related to this event: http://www.grandfather.com/newsletter/november07/view2hugh.php