Picture the Blue Ridge Parkway as a crooked spine running through the Appalachian Mountains. Government stewardship of public lands is splashed across the map in confusing variety – a national park at either end, national forests, historic sites, monuments and state parks along its 469 miles. Moses Cone Manor, a 13,000-square-foot grand Colonial Revival style country estate in Blowing Rock, N.C., now houses the Parkway Craft Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.