The Appalachian Trail

Born in Shirley Center, Massachusetts, in 1879, Benton MacKeye was a naturalist, an early employee of the U.S. Forest Service and a man who thought big. In 1921, fearing that the pace of urban-industrial life along the eastern seaboard was taxing people’s sanity, he proposed a trail that would run from the highest point in …

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