Booker T. Washington National Monument (Booker T. Washington NM) has been the subject of numerous studies focusing on long-range planning, archeology, and interpretive programming. The following cultural landscape report (CLR), encouraged by National Park Service (NPS) policy and recommended by the park's 2000 General Management Plan (GMP), continues this process and provides background information and basic treatment recommendations to implement sound cultural landscape treatment.

Now that Jess DeLand has escaped her alcoholic mother's grip, all she wants is a chance to be normal. To hang out with her wisecracking-but-intuitive boyfriend Cody, learn as much she can about restoring cars from her mentor Kasey, and fill in as substitute big sister to Rhett when her friend Teri Sue goes off to college. But when her past crashes headlong into her present, all hopes of normal go spinning off into the weeds. Jess's attempts to spare her friends-and herself-from the things she'd rather keep hidden, threaten to destroy the new life she's built. Maybe normal is too much to ask for.

Alex is a machine whisperer. He can tell what's wrong with a broken-down car with a touch. But his gift can't save him from the brutality of his meth-addict father. For two years, Alex experienced kindness through Cole, his mentor. Now Cole's dead, and the violence in Alex's life is escalating. When Cole reappears as a ghost, Alex clings to the tenuous link. Then he learns Cole might've sacrificed his chance to cross over. Jade, the first girl to look beyond Alex's past, assures him Cole can reach the Other Side-if Alex escapes from his dad. But a previous terrifying attempt has convinced Alex it's impossible. Unless he can find the courage to try, his friend may be earthbound forever.

The last thing on 16-year-old Jess DeLand s wish list is a boyfriend. She d have to be crazy to think any guy would look twice at her. Besides, there are more important things to hope for, like a job working on cars and an end to her mom s drinking. Foster care is a constant threat, and Jess is willing to sacrifice anything to stay out of the system. When luck hands her the chance to work on a race car, she finds herself rushing full throttle into a world of opportunities including a boy who doesn t mind the grease under her fingernails. The question is, can a girl who keeps herself locked up tighter than Richard Petty s racing secrets open up enough to risk friendship and her first romance?

Getting shipped off to live with his uncle Race was the best thing that ever happened to fifteen-year-old Cody. Then a wreck at the speedway nearly ruined everything. Cody's making every effort to get his life back on track, but there's no escaping the nightmares that haunt him. A chance to build his own car seems like the perfect distraction until Cody realizes he'll have to live up to Race's legendary reputation as a driver. But that's the least of his worries, considering he doesn't have his dad's permission. All he has to do is the impossible: keep his uncle in the dark until he can convince his dad racing's safe. Yeah, sure. That'll be easy.

Cody Everett has a temper as hot as the flashpoint of racing fuel, and it's landed him at his uncle's trailer, a last-chance home before military school. But how can he take the guy seriously when he calls himself Race, eats Twinkies for breakfast, and pals around with rednecks who drive in circles every Saturday night? What Cody doesn't expect is for the arrangement to work. Or for Race to become the friend and mentor he's been looking for all his life. But just as Cody begins to settle in and get a handle on his supercharged temper, a crisis sends his life spinning out of control. Everything he's come to care about is threatened, and he has to choose between falling back on his old, familiar anger or stepping up to prove his loyalty to the only person he's ever dared to trust.