Hungry Mother State Park in southwestern Virginia is noted for its woodlands and lake. Easily accessible from Interstate 81, this park has folklore and history, swimming, camping, cabin rentals, boat rentals, hiking and the park system’s first conference center, Hemlock Haven.
Much of the land for Hungry Mother State Park was donated by local landowners to develop a new state park in Smyth County on Hungry Mother Creek. The park is one of the six original CCC parks that opened in June 1936. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Read more about Hungry Mother State Park: The Legend of Hungry Mother
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“The world is out of shape ... when there are hungry men.”
—Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 51:5.
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
back ...”
—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)