Hall of Fame Nominations Requested

The Mountain Times in Boone, NC published a submitted story on 5 January 2012 under the headline "App Trail Hall of Fame accepting nominations." And that's the gist of it:

Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, Feb. 29. Inductees will be announced on Friday, June 8, at the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Banquet in Boiling Springs, Pa. The inductees will be enshrined on an Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Wall of Honor to be located in the Appalachian Trail Museum in Gardners, Pa.

The article gives more specifics about qualifications and how to make nominations, of course. Or you can just zip over to the Museum website for more information.

The press release was also used by Yvonne Mazzulo in an online publication sort of thing called Examiner.com under headline "2012 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame nominations open" on 7 January 2012.

AT Museum Awards

An online news site called PublicOpinion.com (related, it seems, to the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania newspaper of the same name) has a local news article recognizing the naming of several people for their contributions to the Appalachian Trail Museum.

Those mentioned are: Jim Foster, 2007 thru-hiker from Mechanicsburg, PA, the 2011 Appalachian Trail Museum Volunteer of the Year; Nancy Robinson of Seven Valleys, PA; Bill and Sharon Van Horn of Franklin, NC; and Joanne Paine of Long Beach, CA.

If you weren't among the 20,000 to visit the Museum in its first two seasons, then go this year.

Trail Museum's First Exhibit Dedicated

There's a really nice article in the Washington Post titled "Weaving the Tale Of Trekking's Gritty Fellowship" which was written by Delphine Schrank and published on 3 June 2007. It records the

"an effort to build a museum. About 100 people gathered here Saturday for the dedication of a modest first exhibit at the headquarters of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that for 82 years has overseen America's longest marked footpath and first National Scenic Trail."

Larry Luxenberg, author, head of the Appalachian Trail Museum Society, and hiker, is quoted.

There is also an intelligent description of some of the Trail lore, including the use of trail names.