(028925) Yates, David W. Valle Crucis. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 97 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs. Photographs by William A. Bake. Portrait of a beautiful valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. An Episcopal bishop christened the place Valle Crucis -- Latin for Vale of the Cross. It became the site of the first Episcopal monastery since the sixteenth century ISBN: 089587203X (Valle Crucis Region, Historic Buildings, Pictorial Works)