Hugh Morton

Hugh Morton, president of Grandfather Mountain, has
received numerous awards for his public service,
conservation efforts, and journalistic contributions to his
native state of North Carolina. He is a 2003 recipient of
the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, the
highest honor given by the North Carolina Humanities
Council. His photographs have appeared in numerous
magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's,
Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated, and hang in nearly
every visitor center along North Carolina's highways. His
well-known photograph of the Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct
appears on the cover of Rand McNally's 2000 Road Atlas of
the United States, Canada, and Mexico.