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The Appalachian Trail Conservancy and Arcadia Publishing are pleased to announce the release of award-winning author Leonard M. Adkins' 20th book, Along the Appalachian Trail: West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
Selected from the archives of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the National Park Service, historical societies, local Appalachian Trail maintaining clubs, and regional hikers’ private collections, the approximately 200 vintage photographs (many published for the first time) and corresponding narrative in the newest book present a historical perspective on what it took to create the trail, including those who lived along it before and during its creation, the thousands of volunteers and arduous tasks they performed, the many more who have enjoyed the trail through the years, and original routes no longer on the present-day Appalachian Trail.
Unlike counterparts on other sections of the 2,180+-mile Appalachian Trail who could locate the pathway within national parks and forests, builders of the 270 miles of trail detailed in Images of America: Along the Appalachian Trail: West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania did not have vast tracts of federal lands on which to construct the footpath. Yet, they succeeded in creating a trail within an array of the states’ scenic areas. The new book chronicles the trail’s passage on open meadows along the West Virginia/Virginia border, into Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, scenic vistas of the Potomac River, past the original Washington Monument, and over rocky Pennsylvania ridgelines with long-ranging views. |