Gleanings from the ‘Appalachian Trailway News’
Hello Café friends. I enjoy learning about history, reading, and the Appalachian Trail, so I figured I would combine all these interests together and start reading through my back issues of the ‘Appalachian Trailway News ’ (ATN). My plan is to share some of the interesting bits from each issue of the ATN in this thread (and that other place too). I hope that you find some of these posts interesting, this will probably be a multiyear project.
First a brief timeline leading up to the first issue …
1921:Regional planner Benton MacKaye goes public with his proposal for “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning.”
1923: The first segment of the trail, from Bear Mountain in Harriman State Park to Arden NY is opened.
1925: First Appalachian Trail Conference is held in Washington DC and the Appalachian Trail Conference is formed.
1931: Myron H. Avery elected to first of seven consecutive terms as the ATC’s chair.
1935: Avery and Benton MacKaye have a final ‘falling out’ over how to react to the government’s plans to build Skyline Drive. The two men had different visions for the trail. MacKaye was a visionary and a dreamer who envisioned a wilderness corridor for a ‘modern-barbarian utopia’ while Myron Avery was a more practical ‘doer’ who saw the AT as a place for “tramping, camping, and outdoor recreation.”
1936: Myron Avery becomes the first ‘2000 miler’ completing various section hikes and trail building from Georgia to Maine.
1937: The initial routing of the Appalachian Trail is complete.
1939: The first edition of the Appalachian Trailway News is published.
Hope you enjoy these posts.
Scott
Hello Café friends. I enjoy learning about history, reading, and the Appalachian Trail, so I figured I would combine all these interests together and start reading through my back issues of the ‘Appalachian Trailway News ’ (ATN). My plan is to share some of the interesting bits from each issue of the ATN in this thread (and that other place too). I hope that you find some of these posts interesting, this will probably be a multiyear project.
First a brief timeline leading up to the first issue …
1921:Regional planner Benton MacKaye goes public with his proposal for “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning.”
1923: The first segment of the trail, from Bear Mountain in Harriman State Park to Arden NY is opened.
1925: First Appalachian Trail Conference is held in Washington DC and the Appalachian Trail Conference is formed.
1931: Myron H. Avery elected to first of seven consecutive terms as the ATC’s chair.
1935: Avery and Benton MacKaye have a final ‘falling out’ over how to react to the government’s plans to build Skyline Drive. The two men had different visions for the trail. MacKaye was a visionary and a dreamer who envisioned a wilderness corridor for a ‘modern-barbarian utopia’ while Myron Avery was a more practical ‘doer’ who saw the AT as a place for “tramping, camping, and outdoor recreation.”
1936: Myron Avery becomes the first ‘2000 miler’ completing various section hikes and trail building from Georgia to Maine.
1937: The initial routing of the Appalachian Trail is complete.
1939: The first edition of the Appalachian Trailway News is published.
Hope you enjoy these posts.
Scott
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier