Southwest Virginia Crossroads: An Almanac of Place Names and Places to See »

Joe Tennis is an award-winning features writer, photographer, and columnist for the Bristol Herald Courier as well as a frequent contributor to Appalachian Voice, Blue Ridge Country magazine, and Marquee magazine. He lives in Abingdon, Virginia.

Southwest Virginia Crossroads explores a 17 county region adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway and explains how more than 750 places took their names, including Haysi, Frog Level, Whitetop, Goose Pimple Junction, Butcher Knife, Burke's Garden, Lebanon and Fancy Gap. Featuring 39 maps and 138 original photographs, this illustrated history and guide also points the way to rivers, lakes, museums, roadside oddities, historic sites, fishing spots and 50 waterfalls from Blacksburg to Abingdon, Bristol, and Big Stone Gap.

George Thwaites - Kingsport Times-News

Fascinating and well-illustrated.