Joe Tennis is the author of many books, including Southwest Virginia Crossroads"; "Washington County, Virginia";"Sullivan County, Tennessee"; "Haunts of Virginia's Blue Ridge Highlands"; "The Marble and Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and Virginia"; and "Finding Franklin: Mystery of the Lost State Capitol."He has written about rail trails across Virginia since 1992 for newspapers and magazines such as Blue Ridge Country, Bristol Herald Courier, the Roanoke Times, Virginia Living and Hampton Roads Magazine."