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Adios To "The Singing Horseman", Noel DeCavalcante

7/13/2024

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The A.T. Museum lost a legendary leader today, Noel DeCavalcante, "The Singing Horseman". Noel was one of the Museum's founders and served from the beginning on its Board of Directors.

Below are two tributes to Noel. The first is written by Museum Founder & President Larry Luxenberg. The second is by Museum Board member and the Board Secretary, Bill O'Brien.
​Larry Luxenberg's Remembrance of Noel

It is with sadness that I report the passing of longtime Museum Board Member Noel “The Singing Horseman” DeCavalcante in the early hours of Saturday after a long illness. Noel was a close friend of more than 30 years and held a leadership role at the Museum for 26 years, ever since the first proposal for the Museum. During that time, he served the Museum in every conceivable capacity and maintained that tie until the end.

After distinguished service in the Air Force for 26 years including combat in Vietnam, Noel retired and thru-hiked the A.T. in 1989 and the following year canoed the Mississippi River. We believe he may have been the first person to canoe the entire river from its recognized main source at Lake Itasca, MN., to the Gulf. We made that claim to the Smithsonian Institution but didn’t follow up. Both adventures are chronicled in my book Walking the Appalachian Trail in the chapter titled The Singing Horseman and the Geek. Noel described both adventures in articles for the Penn State Alumni Magazine, the PennStater. It is an understatement to describe Noel as a proud alumnus of Penn State.

Following the two adventures, Noel worked at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy for a year on issues of safety for hikers on the trail and was instrumental in the Ridge Runner program. His Ridge Runner uniform and notes are in the Museum collection.

In retirement, Noel served as Coordinator of ALDHA from 1995 to 1997 and served multiple terms on the ALDHA Board. He also represented ALDHA on the A.T. Museum Board.

In 1998, Noel became one of the founders of the Museum. Over the years he put his rare talent to use to thoroughly analyze a problem from every angle on behalf of the Museum. No major and few minor decisions for the Museum were made without Noel’s analysis and he never had any agenda other than the success of the Museum and never sought credit for his contributions.

Noel served on the selection committee of the A.T. Hall of Fame from its first year in 2011. He also served on the committee to select a Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the Hall of Fame Banquet.
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Bill O'Brien's Farewell To The Singing Horseman

One of the longtime movers and shakers in ALDHA died today. A former coordinator (1995-1997) and a force behind the scenes for many many years on behalf of ALDHA and the A.T. Museum, Noel DeCavalcante -- "The Singing Horseman" -- was 86. 

He thru-hiked in 1989, which is when I first met him on a legendary rainy night at the old Congdon Camp in Vermont. The tiny closed-in cabin had 4 bunks and each one had 2 people apiece. One had a Dalmatian puppy. When I got there as a southbounder, the only room left was the table, which folks cleared off to make room for me. We had all settled in for the night when lights started poking through the lone window of that dark dreary closet. Noel and Chooch had been lollygagging all day from Bascom Lodge picking and eating blueberries when their headlights sent up a round of moans inside the cabin. But there's always room for one more, in this case two more, on a rainy night, so they made their sleeping arrangements on the floor below my table. Between the snoring, the bumping into the table's legs below me and the dog getting sick from eating grass all day, it was quite the memorable night. In the 35 years since that episode, Noel and I always had fond memories of it. 

He delivered one of the most moving testimonials I have since ever heard, at my first Gathering later that year, and when the two of us thought about running for coordinator in 1995, we had a friendly summit on the steps of the Concord College Union on Saturday night where both of us offered to let the other one run. It was finally decided by the only witness to this summit, a quietly amused Rerun, who simply flipped a coin. Noel won the toss, becoming ALDHA's sixth coordinator. I became his assistant, then succeeded him two years later. It was the beginning of a long, fruitful and fun collaboration that served ALDHA -- and later the A.T. Museum -- well. 

I will always cherish that trail friendship, arguably one of the most productive trail friendships in ALDHA history, if I don't say so myself, and today I am saying it. He was our counselor, our conscience, our consigliere (Uncle Sam would be proud). The stories and memories will last a lifetime, like the time he drove two thru-hikers to a car dealership in Maryland so they could drive back to North Carolina for a surprise visit on the wedding anniversary of one of the hikers. (He forgot to send her a card, so what else were we supposed to do? I called Noel at ATC headquarters, and he came right out. Noel, you were a life-saver.)

Happy trails forever, Horseman. Peace, love & adios.
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-- Sprained Rice
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Hall Of Fame Induction Event To Be Held On September 21, 2024

6/27/2024

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​The Appalachian Trail Museum announces that the 2024 Class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame will be honored at the A.T. Hall of Fame Induction on Saturday, September 21, 2024. The Induction will begin at 1 pm and will be held at the Army Heritage Education Center, located at 950 Soldiers Dr, Carlisle, PA 17013.
 
The induction ceremony will be a free event, but registration is required due to limited space. To register, send an email to [email protected] The induction ceremony will be one of a full schedule of events taking place during the Hall of Fame weekend.
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The M.C. for the 2024 Banquet will be Brook Lenker. Brook is Executive Director of Keystone Trails Association (KTA).  Founded in 1956, KTA promotes, provides, preserves, and protects hiking trails and hiking opportunities in Pennsylvania. KTA is also one of the 30 clubs that maintain the Appalachian Trail. Brook came to KTA in October 2021, bringing decades of service to the environment.  He most recently served as the Executive Director of FracTracker Alliance, a national organization addressing the risks of fossil fuel development. Previously, Brook served as Manager of Education and Outreach for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as Director of Watershed Stewardship with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and as the Recreation Program Director with Dauphin County Parks and Recreation Department. His education includes master’s and bachelor’s degrees in geography and environmental planning from Towson University.

As previously announced, the 2024 Hall of Fame class honorees are the late Edward B. Ballard of Washington, DC; the late Arno Cammerer of Arlington, Virginia, the late Raymond Hunt of Kingsport, Tennessee, and Ronald S. Rosen of Poughkeepsie, NY.

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Arno Cammerer, Unsung Hero Of The National Park Service

6/9/2024

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Note: Arno Cammerer has been named to the 2024 Class of the Museum's Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.  Our friends at Smokies Life wrote and published the following article. They have generously allowed us to reprint it here. Thanks especially to the article's author, Holly Kays, Lead Writer and our good friend Frances Figart, Creative Services Director at Smokies Life. Frances is married to John "Bodacious" Beaudet, who carves the Hall of Fame hiking sticks for us.



By Holly Kays

Arno Cammerer was the third director of the National Park Service and played a critical role in the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A congenial, hard-working, and level-headed presence, Cammerer actively mediated the simmering resentments and feuds that at various points threatened to sideline the park project, and he was instrumental in securing an enormous pledge from philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. that was pivotal to making the park a reality. Though substantial, Cammerer’s contributions aren’t widely known—but he’s getting some well-deserved recognition this year as a new member of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.  
 
On a miserable day in mid-February 1929, Arno Cammerer, then associate director of the National Park Service, set off into the rugged backcountry that would later become Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was on a mission. The boundary lines he was there to survey would spell the end of commercial logging in the Tennessee portion of the Smokies—and preserve hope that the land might one day become a national park. 

“It was thought by the lumber people that I would not be able to mark this line until May or June, but I went into the mountains the next two days in snow and rain, and climbing several peaks over 5,000 feet in height to get my bearings, and established the line then and there,” Cammerer wrote in an April 4, 1929, letter to Kenneth Chorley, representative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., who provided critical funding to the park effort.

Impossible as it may be today to imagine the park service’s second-in-command personally marking boundary lines in a forbidding wilderness, the excursion was very much in character for Cammerer, who in 1933 would become the park service’s third director since its creation in 1916.

“You have this sense of a man who was deeply committed to making the Smokies happen,” said writer and researcher Janet McCue, who grew to admire Cammerer while working on the 2019 book Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography she coauthored with the late George Ellison, calling Cammerer one of the “unsung heroes” of park history. 

Cammerer had a hand in creating some of America’s most beloved national parks—Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah, and Olympic national parks were all established under his directorship—but he was most proud of the Smokies. In a July 17,1940, letter to philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., he called it “the most completely satisfying achievement of the past ten years [as NPS director] with which I was connected.”

Despite his important place in park service history, Cammerer remains a little-known figure, recognized mostly in relation to his namesake Mount Cammerer, a 4,928-foot peak in the northeastern part of the park. But he’s receiving a fresh round of recognition following an announcement that he will be one of four people inducted to the AT Hall of Fame at the Appalachian Trail Museum in Pennsylvania this September. 

Since the Hall of Fame launched in 2011, 60 people have been recognized for exceptional and positive contributions to the AT or the community of people devoted to it, but Cammerer, chosen from a pool of more than 200 nominees, is the first NPS director to receive the honor. His “significant role” in establishing Great Smoky Mountains National Park—thereby providing a corridor through which nearly 72 miles of the 2,200-mile trail could pass—“particularly impacted” that decision, said Larry Luxenberg, the museum’s founder and president, as did his efforts to ensure the trail’s path through Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

Cammerer, who joined the park service in 1919—two years before Benton MacKaye proposed the Appalachian Trail concept in 1921—was at the helm during a critical time in the trail’s development. The bulk of trail-building along the 2,200-mile route took place between 1931—when Appalachian Trail Conservancy leadership was turned over to Myron Avery, a forceful personality in AT history who along with MacKaye was in the first group inducted to the Hall of Fame—and 1937, when the initial route was fully connected from Georgia to Maine. Though many people found Avery a difficult man to work with, he and Cammerer fostered a collaborative relationship that proved pivotal to the trail’s success. 

Their acquaintance began in the late 1920s, when Avery was planning the route from Delaware Water Gap to Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia. Through what one AT Hall of Fame nomination termed a “vibrant and extensive correspondence,” Avery laid out the proposed trail route through Shenandoah National Park as Cammerer worked to ensure the proposal would be approved. When it became clear that construction of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia would obliterate sections of the original trail route, Cammerer ensured the trail was rerouted and connectivity maintained. 

He and Avery also worked together on problems that arose once the trail was established. For instance, when Smokies Superintendent J. Ross Eakin prohibited shelters along the route, Avery contacted Cammerer, who spoke with the superintendent. Today, 11 of the AT’s more than 250 shelters are in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

“It took only a gentle nudging from Cammerer to bring his subordinates in line,” the nomination said.

An Unlikely Hero

Born in 1883 to a Lutheran pastor in south-central Nebraska, Cammerer was an unlikely candidate to become a history-making champion of national parks. In Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years, second NPS director Horace Albright wrote that the family’s financial situation forced Cammerer to drop out of high school. He continued his education when he moved to Washington, D.C., entering the federal service in 1904 as a Treasury Department clerk while spending his evenings taking secretarial courses, finishing high school, and attending Georgetown University Law School. He then worked at the National Commission of Fine Arts for three years until 1919, when NPS Director Stephen Mather tapped him to serve as second in command at the three-year-old National Park Service. Despite the transition requiring what Cammerer, in his resignation letter two decades later, termed “considerable financial sacrifice,” he accepted the job, moved by “the great opportunities for real public service in the national park field.”

“Of course, we recognized that he knew nothing about national parks, but his administrative ability, extensive financial work, supervision of office staffs, and knowledge of congressional budget and legislative processes made him the perfect man for Mather,” Albright wrote. “He was very intelligent and would pick up park affairs in short order. Above all he was hard-working, amiable, and even-tempered, with a great sense of humor and an optimistic, businesslike devotion to duty. Mather and I liked him immediately and immensely.”

In the decades following his appointment, Cammerer would assiduously apply these strengths to his work as associate director, and then as director, of the National Park Service—and nowhere was his unique brand of gracious tenacity more on display than in the Great Smoky Mountains.
“There were so many people involved,” McCue said, “but I think it needed a grand orchestrator who was willing to give his all to make sure those moving pieces were going in the same direction, and my own personal opinion is Cammerer was one of those people.” 

Cammerer’s “steadying presence” was a vital asset to the NPS leadership team, Luxenberg said. 
“Stephen Mather, the first director, was brilliant, but he had some mental health issues,” he said. “They needed some steady hands around him to actually implement a lot of his brilliant ideas, and Cammerer was one of those people who really helped to get things going.”

The park service was still in its infancy when Cammerer came on board. National parks were a new concept not just for America, but for the whole world. The NPS’s inaugural leaders weren’t working from a blueprint—they were sketching it while they built the house. Those initial pen strokes brought into being many of the large western parks that remain household names today. But as the park service moved into the 1920s, pressure was building to establish new parks in the more populated eastern region. 

Cammerer was enthusiastic about the concept, said author Steve Kemp, who is writing a book about Rockefeller’s philanthropy toward the national parks. He believed “they were going to benefit families that couldn’t afford the time or money to take a big trip to Yellowstone or Yosemite, and that the Smokies and Shenandoah were going to become the ‘working class’ national parks.” That’s “come to be for sure,” Kemp added—today, half the country’s population lives within an eight-hour drive of the Smokies, which is consistently the country’s most-visited national park. 

“It took creativity to figure out how to develop the great wilderness parks,” Luxenberg said. “Do you have a highway through the middle of the Smokies? Do you restore historic houses in Cades Cove? There’s nothing that says you should or shouldn’t do these things. They had to find their way.”

In the early years of his directorship, Cammerer leaned toward a pro-development approach. As Dan Pierce outlines in The Great Smokies: From Natural History to National Park, Cammerer supported proposals to build hotels within the park boundary and to turn Cades Cove into a lake—or, barring that, to at least build some swimming pools there. But these ideas never came to fruition, and Cammerer’s views evolved as the years went by. In Maintenance of the Primeval in National Parks, which he wrote in 1938, he said that national parks should be “wilderness preserves where true natural conditions are to be found.” 

“When Americans, in years to come, wish to seek out extensive virgin forests, mountain solitudes, deep canyons, or sparsely vegetated deserts,” Cammerer wrote, “they will be able to find them in the National Parks.”

Conservation Through Conversation

Cammerer, who Kemp described as an “extremely affable, friendly person,” quickly developed a rapport with some of the biggest names in Smokies history. A warm, affectionate tone pervaded the correspondence with his partners in the park effort. A December 19, 1928, letter addressed to “Dear friend Kephart” offers a prime example. In the letter, Cammerer complimented Horace Kephart on his “most interesting article” in the latest issue of Field and Stream, “Afoot and Awing in the Great Smokies.” 

“I should like to see more articles from your pen, especially on some of the details of the area which you know so well,” reads the rest of the one-paragraph missive. “The country is hungry for accurate and frank information from a reliable source and you are certainly the man to give it in humanely interesting form.”

His friendship with Kephart later connected him to George Masa, a Japanese immigrant who was a close friend of Kephart’s and whose “unusually fine photographs,” as Cammerer put it in a July 22, 1929, letter to Masa, were instrumental in earning the Smokies national park status. After Kephart’s death in 1931, Cammerer wrote Masa, to whom his thoughts had “immediately turned” upon hearing the news.  

“You have been such congenial comrades and trail companions that I know just how much you will miss him on your trips into the woods,” he wrote. 

The relationship between Masa and Cammerer outlived Kephart, however. In a February 16, 1933, letter thanking Masa for a previous note and enclosed clippings, Cammerer said that he believed the photographer to be “the best mountaineer on the North Carolina side.” 

Described as a “good mixer” in a 1933 Time Magazine article, Cammerer also built lasting friendships at the highest echelons of society, fostering a relationship with philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.—heir to the massive Rockefeller oil fortune—that would prove the salvation of the Smokies park project. The two men kept up a lively correspondence and regularly saw each other in person. The relationship was business—in a December 24, 1934, letter, Cammerer thanked Rockefeller for his “fine, constant friendship for the [Park] Service”—but also personal, as evidenced by the moral and financial support Rockefeller offered first Cammerer, and then his wife, in the years leading up to and after his death. 

“Please know with what deep interest and solicitude I am thinking of Mr. Cammerer at this time and please do not hesitate to call upon me if in any way, great or small, I can be of service in facilitating his return to health,” Rockefeller wrote in a May 5, 1939, letter to Mrs. Cammerer. 
 
Even amid disagreement, Cammerer, affectionately referred to as “Cam,” handled conflict with grace and understanding—exemplified in a December 15, 1937, letter to Asheville Citizen-Times President Charles Webb. Cammerer was reacting to Webb’s public statements that the park would already be open “but for the arbitrary ruling and attitude of the National Park Service.” He spent two pages respectfully laying out his reasons for delaying the park’s completion, concluding with a word of gratitude. 

“I am glad to have the opportunity again to explain this to you in writing,” Cammerer wrote. “You have been such a fighter for the park and such a friend of the National Park Service that I want to keep you fully informed of the facts as they are of record.”

Man In The Middle

The national park effort was well underway and gaining momentum in January 1928, when it hit a speed bump that nearly caused it to crumble. Just three months earlier, Major W. A. Welch, the primary person responsible for raising money toward the park project, had assured Cammerer he was expecting to receive $2 million—but now he admitted that he hadn’t collected a single dollar. 

Cammerer could have thrown up his hands in defeat. Instead, he took a leave of absence from the park service, working “feverishly” to save the project, as Pierce writes in The Great Smokies. Cammerer had already been moving behind the scenes and had a standing friendship with Rockefeller. Following Welch’s confession, he convinced Rockefeller to pledge $5 million, or about $91 million in today’s dollars, in matching funds for allocations from Tennessee and North Carolina—a pivotal victory at a critical moment. 

Still, the park effort remained fragile, and Cammerer was responsible for holding it all together. A diligent letter writer, Cammerer was continually assuaging suspicions from both Tennessee and North Carolina, each of which believed the federal government was favoring the other state. He worked to ensure logging stopped as soon as possible in the future park, hoping to protect the natural values that had earned the Smokies a shot at national park status in the first place. As the years wore on, he faced continual pressure from park advocates who were angry that the park still wasn’t open. 

At the same time, he was mediating a feud over the Appalachian Trail’s route through Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. Many AT supporters were infuriated by the federal government’s plan to build the Skyline Drive motor road through the park, in many places using the same route intended for the AT. Myron Avery worked with Cammerer to come up with a compromise—the road could be built, but the federal government must pay for the AT sections it displaced to be rebuilt, and those sections must be routed as far away from the road as practical. Not everyone was happy with this solution. MacKaye, for instance, was “incensed,” Jeffrey H. Ryan wrote in Blazing Ahead: Benton MacKaye, Myron Avery, and the Rivalry that Built the Appalachian Trail. He believed that the road proposal “violate[d] the wilderness solitude not merely here and there but throughout its whole length.”

Navigating these challenges demanded every ounce of effort and resolve Cammerer could muster. He was in an extraordinarily stressful position made even worse by the constant bullying he received from Harold Ickes, who served as Secretary of the Interior for the entirety of Cammerer’s directorship and had a reputation for being mean and cantankerous. He never liked Cammerer, Kemp said. 

“It is a wonder that I have any black hair left on my head, or even any hair at all, with the amount of problems that I have had to contend with on these various park propositions,” Cammerer wrote in an April 21, 1934, letter to Chorley. 

He continued on to say that he had not been away from his desk for a single day “including Sundays and holidays, and evenings for that matter,” since a September 1933 trip to New York. Such incredible devotion to the job was typical of those first three park service directors in the 1920s and ’30s, a period of time when an “unbelievable” amount of work got done, Kemp said. 

Between Cammerer’s appointment as director in 1933 and his resignation in 1940, the National Park Service grew from 128 units covering 15.18 million acres to 204 units covering 21.93 million acres, he wrote in his resignation letter. Average annual appropriations grew from $11.1 million to $16 million, and the number of employees multiplied from 2,027 to 6,977. At one point during Cammerer’s tenure, before the Buildings Branch was transferred away from park service oversight, NPS contained 13,751 employees. Between 1933 and 1938, Cammerer wrote, he took fewer than 14 days of annual leave, an equivalent number of sick days, and worked 222 days of overtime. 

Years of unrelenting work took their toll on his health.

“They all suffered from depression and a lot of health problems that were always diagnosed as due to overwork,” Kemp said of those initial park service leaders. “Their prescription was always rest, and they always talked about, ‘Well, once we get this done, it will be nice to have our good long rest.’ Usually, they never got those rests.” 

Cammerer’s dedication to the park service likely cost him his life. His health problems culminated in a heart attack in 1939, which led him to resign the directorship for an ostensibly less stressful position as eastern regional director. Nevertheless, a second heart attack claimed his life on April 30, 1941, when he was just 57 years old.  

Cammerer died young, but he lived long enough to see his years of work toward preserving the Smokies as a national park come to fruition. Congress established it legislatively in 1934, and on September 2, 1940, Cammerer watched as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially dedicated the country’s newest national park.  

“There were a lot of people who played roles [in the Smokies’ creation], but I think of Cammerer as having a pivotal role,” McCue said. “At least from my perspective, if he hadn’t been there, it could easily have fallen apart.”

On Saturday, September 21, Arno Cammerer joins the more than 60 people added to the A.T. Hall of Fame since its inception in 2011. In addition to Cammerer, Edward Ballard, Raymond Hunt, and Ronald Rosen form the 2024 class of honorees inducted during the ceremony in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For more information visit atmuseum.org.

 - Holly Kays is the lead writer for the 29,000-member Smokies Life, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the scientific, historical, and interpretive activities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park by providing educational products and services such as this story. Learn more at SmokiesLife.org and reach the author at [email protected].
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The A.T. Museum Welcomes The Netteburg Family On May 5

4/14/2024

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PictureThe Netteburg family on Mt. Moosilauke
The AT Museum welcomes the Netteburg Family on May 5, 2024.

The Netteburg Family brings stories from their AT thru-hike with their 4 children (ages 4, 6, 8, & 11) in 2020.

Their youngest hiker made history when she completed the trail at age 4.
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Location: Appalachian Trail Museum (outside), 1120 Pine Grove Rd, Gardners, PA 17324
Date/Time: Sunday, May 5th at 1pm

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All Friends Of The A.T. Museum Are Invited To Our Annual Membership Meeting On April 30, 2024

4/2/2024

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Notice of Museum Annual Membership Meeting


The Appalachian Trail Museum, Inc. will hold its Annual Membership Meeting on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7 pm. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. The meeting information appears below. All Museum Members in good standing are invited to attend and will have a vote. The public is also invited to attend.

At the Membership Meeting, the Officer and non-officer Director positions shown below will be elected. The Board of Directors has nominated the following persons to these positions:

For a two-year term:
Treasurer: Jay Sexton
Secretary: Bill O’Brien
Membership Secretary: Robert Croyle
Non-Officer Directors: (Incumbents) Noel DeCavalcante, Joe Harold, Dakota Jackson.
(New Directors) Judy Bennett, Ed Riggs

For a one-year term:
Non-Officer Directors: (New Directors) Jennifer Boag, Ed Shoenberger

Museum members in good standing may submit alternate nominations for these positions by no later than Tuesday, April 16. Nominations should be submitted by email to [email protected].
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Zoom Meeting Information
Topic: A.T. Museum Annual Meeting
Time: Apr 30, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82841993276?pwd=7hzYymZcyUlasyjKaHWp2ZUDbz5jn7.1
Meeting ID: 828 4199 3276
Passcode: 064002
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2024 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

4/2/2024

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The fourteenth class of Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame honorees has been announced by the Appalachian Trail Museum’s Hall of Fame selection committee.

The 2024 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame class honorees are the late Edward B. Ballard of Washington, DC; the late Arno Cammerer of Arlington, Virginia, the late Raymond Hunt of Kingsport, Tennessee, and Ronald S. Rosen of Poughkeepsie, NY.
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PictureEdward B. Ballard, courtesy ATC
Although not as well-known as other founders of the Trail, Edward Ballard played a critical role in its design. He was a field coordinator for the National Park Service during the pivotal 1937 Appalachian Trail Conference meeting. With the backing of his close associate Myron Avery, Ballard proposed what became the Appalachian Trailway Agreement among ATC, NPS, the U.S. Forest Service and the thirteen states through which the Trail passes. In that Agreement, he proposed “an Appalachian Trailway”—a buffer strip of land within which the Trail and its surroundings would be protected. We now know this as the A.T. corridor. Although it would take many decades before his dream of a corridor for the entire Trail became reality, the essence of that agreement continues to this day. He also proposed the chain of overnight shelters or lean-tos roughly a day’s hike apart along the length of the footpath. That system of Trail shelters also continues to this day.
 
Ballard later served in the Pacific during World War II, then as an official with several state park agencies, and finally as a prominent landscape architect. He passed away in 2000.

PictureArno Cammerer, courtesy NPS
Arno Cammerer has been described as the best friend that the A.T. had in the federal government during its early days. By the 1930s, Cammerer had been at the National Park Service for more than a decade and had recently become its Director. Prior to becoming Director, he worked with Myron Avery to lay out the route of the Trail from Pennsylvania to Georgia. As Director, Cammerer was instrumental in making the Smoky Mountains a national park. He secured funding from his good friend John D. Rockefeller Jr. to acquire land for the park, which secured the route of the Appalachian Trail through that area.

When, in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was created and began building Skyline Drive, Cammerer tasked the CCC with rebuilding the trail in places where the Drive obliterated the original Avery routing. After the Blue Ridge Parkway's construction required the Trail in that area to be rerouted, Cammerer directed the CCC to help with this work as well. When the administrators of Great Smoky Mountains National Park prohibited shelters on the A.T. within that park, Cammerer intervened and got them restored. Arno Cammerer died of a heart attack in 1941. In his honor a mountain in the Smokies is named after him – Mount Cammerer.

PictureRay Hunt, courtesy ATC
Dave Startzell, long time Executive Director of ATC, said this of Raymond F. Hunt: “Ray was not a large man, but he was a giant within the A.T. management community.” Ray was the first editor, in 1977, of the annual Appalachian Trail Data Book, a role he continued to perform until his election as ATC Chair. A highly active Trail volunteer with the Tennessee Eastman Hiking Club, he served a long term on the ATC Board of Managers beginning in 1979 and was especially involved in the publications and land-acquisition programs. His three terms as ATC Chair from 1983 to 1989 were significant ones for building support within congressional appropriations subcommittees for funding to secure a buffer of land around the footpath against development.
 
ATC’s partnership with the National Park Service was also formalized during this time, including the 1984 delegation by that agency to ATC of day-to-day responsibility for managing the Trail lands. This meant that ATC was given most of the same conservation responsibilities that park staff have at other National Park units. Mr. Hunt completed a section-hike of the whole Trail in 1988. He passed away in 2005.
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PictureRon Rosen, courtesy Karen Lutz
Ronald S. Rosen is widely recognized as one of the most effective volunteers in the history of the A.T. He began his involvement in the mid-1970s when he became a maintainer with the New York New Jersey Trail Conference. In 1981 Ron formed and chaired the Dutchess Appalachian Trail Management Committee. Later this Committee’s role was expanded to supervise all of the A.T. in New York east of the Hudson River. Ron led the effort to move the A.T. off the roads in this area to a true trail. Ron developed one of the first Local Management Plans which has become a model for other clubs up and down the AT. Another huge task Ron immersed himself in was the cleanup of a radioactive spill at Nuclear Lake near the path of the Trail.
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Beyond his work on the Trail in New York, Ron has served in various volunteer administrative roles within ATC. He has served for decades on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Partnership Committee, including terms as its Chair. More recently, Ron served on the committee that developed the A.T. Vista concept, as the successor to the Biennial Conferences. Ron was a leader of the first very successful Vista held in 2023. Ron has been named an Honorary Life Member of ATC.
 
Thirteen classes have previously been elected to the A.T. Hall of Fame. The Charter Class, elected in 2011, comprised Myron Avery, Gene Espy, Ed Garvey, Benton MacKaye, Arthur Perkins and Earl Shaffer. Members of the 2012 class were Emma Gatewood, David Richie, J. Frank Schairer, Jean Stephenson and William Adams Welch. The 2013 Class was Ruth Blackburn, David Field, David Sherman, David Startzell and Eddie Stone. The 2014 Class was A. Rufus Morgan, Chuck Rinaldi, Clarence Stein and Pamela Underhill. The 2015 Class was Ned Anderson, Margaret Drummond, Stanley Murray and Raymond Torrey. In 2016, Maurice J. Forrester, Jr., Horace Kephart, Larry Luxenberg and Henry Arch Nichols were inducted. The 2017 Class was Harlean James, Charles Parry, Mildred Norman Ryder and Tillie Wood. In 2018, William Kemsley, Jr., Elizabeth Levers, George Masa and Bob Peoples were elected. Members of the 2019 Class were Jean Cashin, Paul Fink, Don King and Bob Proudman. The 2020 Class was Chris Brunton, Thurston Griggs, Warren Doyle and Jim Stoltz. Harvey Broome, Stephen Clark, Thomas Johnson and Marianne Skeen comprised the 2021 class. The 2022 class was Jim & Molly Denton, JoAnn & Paul Dolan, Laurie Potteiger and Tom Speaks. Members of the 2023 class were M.J. Eberhart, Lester Kenway, Brian King and Harry Rentschler.

The 2024 Hall of Fame Class will be honored at the Hall of Fame Induction event on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at the Army Heritage Education Center, Carlisle, PA. The Induction will be one of a full schedule of events during the Hall of Fame Weekend.

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Hall Of Fame Induction Event to Be Held on September 21, 2024

3/18/2024

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PictureBrook Lenker, Executive Director, KTA
The Appalachian Trail Museum announces that the 2024 Class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame will be honored at the A.T. Hall of Fame Induction on September 21, 2024. The Induction will begin at 1 pm and will be held at Army Heritage Education Center, located at 950 Soldiers Dr, Carlisle, PA 17013.
 
The M.C. for the 2024 Banquet will be Brook Lenker, Executive Director of Keystone Trails Association (KTA). Founded in 1956, KTA promotes, provides, preserves, and protects hiking trails and hiking opportunities in Pennsylvania. Brook came to KTA in October 2021, bringing decades of service to the environment.  He most recently served as the Executive Director of FracTracker Alliance, a national organization addressing the risks of fossil fuel development. Previously, Brook served as Manager of Education and Outreach for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as Director of Watershed Stewardship with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and as the Recreation Program Director with Dauphin County Parks and Recreation Department. His education includes master’s and bachelor’s degrees in geography and environmental planning from Towson University.
 
“The 2024 Class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame will be announced soon,” says Larry Luxenberg, President of the AT Museum. “We excited about the lineup of awardees and pleased to have Brook host the ceremony.”
 
The induction ceremony will be a free event, but registration is required due to limited space. To register, please send an email to [email protected] The induction ceremony will be one of a full schedule of events taking place during the Hall of Fame weekend.


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Nominations for 2024 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Accepted through January 31, 2024

11/21/2023

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Picture2023 Hall of Fame Induction MC Hawk Metheny (l) with Hall of Fame Inductees and Representatives
Nominations for the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will be accepted through January 31, 2024.  The Hall of Fame recognizes those who have made a significant contribution toward establishing and maintaining the approximately 2,190 mile footpath that passes through 14 states from Maine to Georgia.

"The fourteenth class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame will be inducted in 2024, and nominations are open for Hall of Fame nominees," said Larry Luxenberg, president of the Appalachian Trail Museum – the organization that oversees the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.  "Nominees should be people who have made a significant positive contribution to the Appalachian Trail and who have unselfishly devoted their time, energy and resources toward making the Appalachian Trail a national treasure."

56 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of Fame in the first thirteen years.  Their names and biographies can be found on the Museum's website, www.atmuseum.org  "These pioneers played critical roles in building, maintaining, protecting and publicizing the Appalachian Trail", Luxenberg said. 
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Nomination criteria and the nominating and selection processes for the 2024 Hall of Fame are:

Criteria - Those eligible for inclusion include anyone who has made an exceptional and positive contribution to the Appalachian Trail or Appalachian Trail community. This could be by leadership, inspiration, service, achievement or innovation. This includes, without limitation, pioneers who conceived of and developed the trail; those who organized or directed major trail organizations like the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and Appalachian Trail clubs; maintaining clubs; longtime trail maintainers; leaders who promoted and protected the A.T.; hikers who have made significant accomplishments, and other persons who have enriched the culture or community of the Appalachian Trail by their association with it. Eligible persons can be living or deceased. The emphasis will be on persons who have made their contribution to the A.T. over a long period, whether or not they are still active. Eligibility and selection will be determined without regard to race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin.
 
Nominations – Nominations will be solicited from throughout the hiking and trails community.  The easiest way to submit a nomination is by using the online site https://tinyurl.com/22kp8rkz Nominations also may be submitted using the paper nomination form.  Copies of the paper form can be obtained at https://tinyurl.com/2n8pp73e or by requesting one from the Museum. A nominator need not be a member of any hiking organization to submit a nomination. A nominator may only make one nomination per election cycle. Nominators will be asked to justify their nomination in a brief statement that describes the nominee and why he or she fits the criteria.
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Deadline for nominations – January 31, 2024.
 
Hall of Fame Committee; Election – An Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Committee has been selected by the Appalachian Trail Museum Board of Directors to supervise the election process.  That Committee is chaired by Jim Foster.  Other members of the committee are Noel DeCavalcante, David Field (a 2013 Hall of Fame inductee), Brian King, Gwen Loose, Karen Lutz, Larry Luxenberg (a 2016 inductee), Bill O’Brien and Ron Tipton. The Committee elected six people to the 2011 Charter Class, five to the 2012 Class, five to the 2013 Class, and four each to the classes since then.

Announcement and recognition of inductees – Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame inductees will be announced in early April. They will be inducted at a time and place to be announced. The inductees will be enshrined on an Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Wall of Honor at the Ironmaster’s Mansion, located near the Museum.  Located in Pine Grove Furnace State Park and at the midway point of the Appalachian Trail, the Museum is near the Pine Grove General Store on Pennsylvania Route 233.

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2023 A.T. Museum Progress Letter "The Year of Small Miracles"

11/13/2023

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PictureLarry Luxenberg, A.T. Museum Founder & President
Often we get caught up in the day to day running of the Appalachian Trail Museum and it seems like little of consequence has changed during the year. But every year, without fail, when we sit down to write this year end letter and start listing the big changes, we are astounded at the year’s accomplishments. What is different this year is that we thought even less was happening and the accomplishments turned out greater. So many unexpected things happened that we must dub this the “Year of Small Miracles.” 

PictureDedication of the Darlington-Deans Gap Shelter
The most unlikely miracle was reconstructing the Darlington-Deans Gap Shelter in time for the 75th anniversary of Earl Shaffer’s pioneering 1948 thru-hike. We began this project in 2010 and with great effort and some big machines brought the shelter stones to the Museum in 2012. There they sat for a decade as inertia, and changes in plans kept the pile of stones intact under a blue tarp. More than a year ago, the Museum, along with the Earl Shaffer Foundation, decided to revive the project and to complete the shelter by the August anniversary. Delays continued and the outlook for completion dimmed. I resolved to dedicate something that day even if we’d be dedicating plans, not stones. All of a sudden, a stonemason appeared two weeks before the dedication and a beautiful work of art materialized. 

On Saturday, August 12 we had a full day of Shaffer events. Dozens of Shaffers from Pennsylvania and around the country came to pay tribute to their distinguished forebear. They spun stories about Earl and caught up with long separated relatives. In the afternoon we filled the Furnace Stack Picnic Pavilion as speaker after speaker talked about Earl, his place in hiking history and much more with MCs Dan Shaffer, Earl’s nephew, and Sanne Bagby, president of the Earl Shaffer Foundation. Author Andrea Shapiro read her new children’s book on Earl’s hike: Two Thousand Miles to Happy. Silas Chamberlin of York, as was Earl, talked about the history of hiking in the U.S. Also present was Luke Kolbie, CEO of the Russell Moccasin Company, maker of the Birdshooter boots that Earl wore on his historic hike. 

Later, we climbed the hill to hear stories from Karen Balaban and Larry Knutson, who spearheaded the original Darlington Shelter project. Finally, after Odie led some hiker cheers, we had a duct tape cutting to inaugurate the beautiful shelter on its new site right outside the Museum. Still not a finished project, the hard part is done. The stones are in place and next year we’ll add a roof, barrier in front and interpretive materials. Appropriately, after the shelter dedication, we had a talk on rocks on the A.T. by author Craig Eckert, a career geologist about his book Rocks, Roots and Rattlesnakes. Craig is in the early stages of helping us prepare an exhibit on A.T. geology. Other than food, nothing is more important to A.T. hikers than rocks.


A month later the Museum had another special weekend at the park. On Saturday, Sept. 9, also in the Furnace Stack Picnic Pavilion, the hiking Class of 1983 had its 40th reunion. Ten years before the class had had another reunion at the park and mounted an exhibit on the trail in 1983 including dozens of hiker stories. Both the reunions and the exhibit were organized by Alan “Gonzo” Strackeljahn, a 1983 hiker and the Museum’s longtime webmaster and now publishing department. Alan unveiled three new books on the class of 1983, bringing to nine the total number of books the Museum has published, mostly with considerable effort from Alan. Others who have contributed significantly to the Museum’s publishing efforts include George Blackburn, Margy Schmidt and Mark Yarm and authors Richard Judy, Backpacker Bill Kemsley, Maurice Forrester Jr. and David Donaldson. 

The Museum’s next publishing venture is a big departure for us but since the A.T. Museum is the only full-fledged hiking museum in the country we have no prior trails to follow. A.T. legend Odie has decided to turn over the Hiker Yearbook to the Museum. Starting this year, the Museum will work with Odie to continue the project. With his passionate involvement in the A.T. community and trademark yellow school bus, Odie established a tradition of hikers submitting their photos for a classic but unusual yearbook. Each year close to 1,000 hikers purchase a copy. The yearbook comes out each spring. 
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Also, on that memorable weekend in September, the A.T. Museum inducted the four members of the 13th class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame under the leadership of Chair Jim Foster. The ceremony was at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle. The four inductees were Brian King, longtime Appalachian Trail Conservancy employee and preeminent historian of the A.T., Nimblewill Nomad, oldest person to hike the whole A.T. at age 83 and one of the most prolific and charismatic hikers of our generation; Dr. Harry Rentschler, a founder of the Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club and critical in completing the original A.T. in Pennsylvania; and Lester Kenway of Maine, a leading authority on trail construction and volunteer A.T. builder in Maine.  Before the ceremony, several of the honorees or their representatives spoke in the new Hall of Fame Room at Ironmasters Hostel. Previous inductee Tom Speaks of the Forest Service, along with Brian King, Nimblewill and Barry Webb, Blue Mountain Eagle historian, told stories about their A.T. careers. 

What would a hiking museum be without hikers? Only a few backpackers have done more than 50,000 miles. To put that in perspective, that’s the equivalent of thru-hiking the A.T. 25 times. The Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association has established the Billy Goat Award for those who have backpacked more than 25,000 miles, in and of itself a highly select group.  

We are aware of fewer than a dozen living hikers who have backpacked more than 50,000 miles. The earliest to reach that milestone was Peace Pilgrim, who hiked the A.T. in 1952 and from then until her death in 1981 crossed the U.S. and Canada continuously on foot. She stopped counting at 25,000 miles but we estimate that she hiked between 50,000 and 75,000 miles in her efforts to promote world peace. At the Museum in September and October, we hosted at least five hikers who have topped 50,000 miles. Besides Billy Goat and Nimblewill, they are Warren Doyle, a 2020 inductee; Bart Smith, photographer extraordinaire and first person to hike all the National Scenic and Historic Trails; and Catherine Stratton, who spoke Oct. 14 at the hostel about her 50 years of hiking all over the world. 

Besides these distinguished hikers we honored our own Nan Reisinger, longtime A.T. Museum volunteer, who became the oldest woman to complete the trail in a year and started and ended her epic journey at the Museum. At the Hall of Fame ceremony, we honored Museum Treasurer Jay Sexton with the Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Jay has brought professionalism and passion to his work for the Museum over several decades. His late wife, Katie, was one of the Museum’s most enthusiastic volunteers and along with Jay introduced many young people to backpacking and hiking. Katie is remembered with a tree planted close to the Museum. We are extending that tradition with plans to honor other members of the Museum family. Our new chief gardener, Ann Bodling, is involved in that effort along with Judy Bennett. 

No account of the Museum’s involvement with extraordinary hikers can omit Heather “Anish” Anderson. We have had an exhibit on Anish for several years and she has graced the Museum with several inspirational talks. Anish kicked off our year with a talk at Gettysburg College, co-sponsored by the college’s Garthwait Leadership Center. Anish talked about the life lessons she’s taken from hiking before a more than capacity crowd of 150 people. Anish was introduced by longtime Museum volunteer Ed Riggs, who also writes a hiking column for the Gettysburg Times, one of the few hiking columns anywhere. Other speakers this year included Prof. Mills Kelly of George Mason University on his new book Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail; Harvey Dennenberg, author of Maine’s Appalachian Trail: How Senior Made Section Hiking Easier; Anne Van Curen, portraying Grandma Gatewood; Geologist Craig Eckert; Backpacker Catherine Stratton; and in mid-November, Professor Kip (Hippy Kippy) Redick of Christopher Newport University, author of the new book, American Camino. Adding to the Museum’s small miracles for the year are the significant progress on oral history, an area we have struggled with for decades. Volunteers Greg Cook and Jessica Strother have launched a project called “Tell Us Your Story.” Hikers are asked to record a five-minute story of their A.T. hiking and already several stories are uploaded on the Museum website. Two women, Karen and Shannon, with a YouTube channel, Wandering Out Yonder, filmed many events at the A.T. Museum this year and brought a significant amount of talent, dedication and professionalism to the task. The channel features their many adventures but we are partial to their A.T. work. 

We continue to work on the A.T. 3D Map as we attempt to fill out the five monitors devoted to different parts of the A.T. We also installed a beautiful overhead bonnet covering our laser equipment. This remains one of our most popular exhibits On another part of the top floor, in early spring hiker and artist Monica Aguilar of Chasing Trails Art painted some beautiful murals of plants, animals and birds in our gift shop area. We hope to build on these murals in coming years. We also added a new feature in the children’s museum with three children’s silhouettes on the wall while they make comments about their hike as Museum Vice President Gwen Loose and Greg Snell of Graphik Masters continue their extraordinary collaboration on the Museum exhibits. Longtime board member Karen Lutz stepped down in early summer after a legendary career of service to the Museum and the A.T. community. Fortunately for us, Karen remains involved and is helping with a new exhibit. Membership Secretary Robert “Red Wolf o’ da Smoky’s” Croyle has spearheaded our many successful fundraising campaigns and kept supporters updated with his wide-ranging electronic newsletters. Through his efforts, the Museum now has more than 900 members and more than 700,000 visitors to our Whiteblaze.net thread. 

Early in the year we received an email from a 2022 hiker named Cricket. It was a heartwarming message and it was the kind of thing that separates our small hiking Museum from its 10,000 museum counterparts. Cricket was on the verge of quitting her thru-hike at the midpoint when she received some trail magic from Museum Volunteer Jennifer Boag. With Cricket Injured, homesick and discouraged, Jennifer lifted Cricket’s spirits with trail magic and encouragement. Cricket went on to complete the trail and told us: ”A Year after setting off, I still feel immense gratitude for my life that the trail revealed for me. Through challenges and doubt that I could keep walking over the next mountain, I learned the lesson that tomorrow is a new day.”

​The Museum has a diverse group of talented volunteers but what makes the enterprise thrive is our two managers, Julie Queen and Missy Shank.  Missy is completing her fourth year as hostel keeper at Ironmasters Hostel. She began in January 2020, a month before the global Covid pandemic was declared, certainly an inauspicious time to enter the hospitality industry. Missy has enhanced the hostel’s reputation among the trail community and established a welcoming atmosphere. Julie brought years of A.T. involvement to the Museum manager’s position in 2021. She has broadened the Museum’s outreach to the trail community and fostered a close-knit group of engaged volunteers. The Museum manager deals with an extraordinary variety of demands and Julie has handled these tasks with grace and aplomb as well as establishing relationships with new partners and sponsors. 

The Museum is fortunate to have both leaders as well as our many dedicated volunteers and supporters.   We thank our many volunteers and our supporters throughout the trail community and we look forward to another great year in 2024. For those in a position to support the Museum’s continued growth and operations, we appreciate any financial contributions.  To contribute, please follow the instructions that appear below.  All contributions through December 31, 2026, are added together to give one donor their final plaque listing level. Your support makes the Museum the success we all enjoy! 

Sincerely, 

Larry Luxenberg Museum President


Contact info: 
  • Julie Queen, Museum Manager, 717-486-8126, [email protected]   
  • Missy Shank, Ironmasters Manager, 717-486-4108, [email protected]  
  • Robert “Red Wolf o’da Smoky’s” Croyle, Museum Membership Secretary
[email protected]  

CLICK HERE To Make A Contribution Now! 
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The AT Museum welcomes Catherine Stratton, 50 years and 50,000 miles of Backpacking

9/30/2023

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The AT Museum welcomes Catherine Stratton, 50 years and 50,000 miles of backpacking: Reflections on the A.T., on Saturday, October 14th at 3pm.

Catherine Stratton, one of the most experienced backpackers with more than 50,000 miles on major trails around the world, shares her experiences and the changes in hikers and trails over her half century of hiking.

Catherine came to the A.T. in the 1970s and has hiked it many times in all seasons and conditions doing thru-hikes and section hikes as well as day hikes. She is a triple crowner as well as having hiked major trails in Europe and elsewhere. Among other honors, she has been awarded the Billy Goat Award by the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association.

Location: This program will take place outside in the grassy area below the museum, close to Furnace Stack parking. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on. The address is 1120 Pine Grove Rd, Gardners, PA 17324. In the event of very cold or inclement weather, the program will take place inside Ironmaster’s Mansion, a 2-minute walk from the museum.

Date/Time: Saturday, October 14th at 3pm
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