View of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway from atop Grandfather Mountain. Weekend America listener Ewa Powell often feels as if she can almost touch the fog that rolls by the distant Smoky Mountains. (Ewa Powell)

A Picnic on the Blue Ridge Parkway

View of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway from atop Grandfather Mountain. Weekend America listener Ewa Powell often feels as if she can almost touch the fog that rolls by the distant Smoky Mountains.

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