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Looking Forward by Looking Back THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY / WINTER 2021 LOOKING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK CONTENTS / WINTER 2021 12 / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Who we are, how we got here, and how we find the path forward 16 / NATIVE LANDS CONTENTS / WINTER 2021 Indigenous American lands along the A.T. 24 / THE A.T. AND RACE 06 / CONTRIBUTORS Reckoning with the past opens the door to an equitable future 08 / PRESIDENT’S LETTER 10 / LETTERS 26 / PREPARING FOR 52 / VOICES OF DEDICATION THE TRAIL 46 / TRAIL STORIES Unfiltered determination sets the tone for a beautiful adventure A close call with Mother Nature 30 / HEADING TOWARD 48 / INDIGENOUS TRUE NORTH The American chestnut tree Finding an authentic path to justice 54 / PARTING THOUGHT Home and the rhythm of nature 34 / WE WERE THERE, TOO Pioneering A.T. Women ON THE COVER Appalachian Trail near Mount Rogers, 38 / CHANGING OUTDOOR Virginia — which intersects with the Native American territory lands of the Moneton Nation. REPRESENTATION The A.T. runs through 22 Native Nations’ traditional & NARRATIVES territories and holds an abundant amount of Building a relationship with the outdoors Indigenous history. Photo by Jeffrey Stoner Above: Rocky Fork Creek along the A.T. corridor in 42 / TRAIL AS MUSE Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park, Tennessee/ Appalachian Trail impressions North Carolina intersects with the Native American territory lands of the S’atsoyaha Nation. Photo by Jerry Greer THE MAGAZINE OF THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY / WINTER 2021 ATC EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP MISSION Sandra Marra / President & CEO The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s mission is to protect, manage, and Nicole Prorock / Chief Financial Officer advocate for the Appalachian Shalin Desai / Vice President of Advancement National Scenic Trail. Laura Belleville / Vice President of Conservation & Trail Programs Cherie A. Nikosey / Vice President of Administration Brian B. King / Publisher & Archivist BOARD OF DIRECTORS A.T. JOURNEYS Colin Beasley / Chair Wendy K. Probst / Editor in Chief Robert Hutchinson / Vice Chair Traci Anfuso-Young / Art Director / Designer Edward R. Guyot / Secretary Jim LaTorre / Treasurer CONTRIBUTORS Daniel A. Howe / Stewardship Council Chair Grant Davies Jordan Bowman / Director of Communications Norman P. Findley Laurie Potteiger / Information Services Manager Thomas L. Gregg Brittany Jennings / Proofreader John Knapp, Jr. Ann Heilman Murphy Colleen Peterson Eboni Preston Nathan G. Rogers MEMBERSHIP ADVERTISING Rubén Rosales For membership questions A.T. Journeys is published three times Patricia D. Shannon or to become a member, call: per year. Advertising revenues directly Rajinder (Raj) Singh (304) 885-0460 support the publication and production of Ambreen Tariq the magazine, and help meet Appalachian Trail Conservancy objectives. For more [email protected] information and advertising rates, visit: appalachiantrail.org/atjadvertising PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Hon. Stephanie Martz Diana Christopulos The staff of A.T. Journeys welcomes A.T. Journeys is published A.T. Journeys ( ISSN 1556-2751) is Jim Fetig editorial inquiries, suggestions, on Somerset matte paper published by the Appalachian Trail Lisa Koteen Gerchick and comments. Email: manufactured by Sappi North Conservancy, 799 Washington Mark Kent [email protected] America mills and distributors Street, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425, Observations, conclusions, that follow responsible forestry (304) 535-6331. Bulk-rate postage R. Michael Leonard opinions, and product practices. 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CONTRIBUTORS Trey Adcock Shilletha Curtis MIlls Kelly Fred Tutman Trey Adcock (Ꮳ Ꮃ ᎩᎯ Ꭰ ᏰᎵ, Shilletha Curtis was born in Mills Kelly is a professor of history Fred Tutman is a grassroots enrolled Cherokee Nation), Newark, New Jersey and spent at George Mason University in community advocate for clean PhD, is an associate professor much of her time growing up in Fairfax, Virginia. He is currently water in Maryland’s longest and of Interdisciplinary Studies Morristown and down by the writing a history of the Trail and deepest intrastate waterway and the director of American shore. She received her Bachelor’s has just completed a shorter book and holds the title of Patuxent Indian and Indigenous Studies in Social Work from Rutgers titled Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Riverkeeper, which is also the at the University of North University in 2014. Before Trail, about the original route the name of a nonprofit organization Carolina Asheville. In 2013, that, she spent a summer in Trail took between Roanoke and that he founded in 2004. Some Trey participated in the Trail China honing her Mandarin skills Damascus, that he hopes will be of the lessons learned on the for Every Classroom program followed by an internship at an published in 2021. “I first hiked Appalachian Trail — as both a hiker hosted by the ATC and has orphanage in Romania. Helping on the A.T. in the early 1970s and Potomac Appalachian Trail Club hiked multiple portions of people has always been her and it seems like the Trail has member — have inspired his work the southern section of the passion but she found that she been part of my life ever since,” on water trails as well. Appalachian Trail with friends had a profound love for animals he says. “While researching my Prior to riverkeeping, Fred and family. In 2018, Trey was and eventually the outdoors. She book, I kept looking for sources spent over 25 years working as a named one of seven national trained and then worked as a that spoke directly to the role that media producer and consultant on Public Engagement Fellows veterinary technician in Austin, race has played in the history of telecommunications assignments by the Whiting Foundation Texas and practiced for two years; the Trail. The more I looked, the on four continents, including a for his oral history work but she realized that there was more frustrated I became about stint covering the Falkland War in the TutiYi “Snowbird” Cherokee more to life than working a nine- the almost total absence of such in Argentina for the BBC and Community. “I wanted to share to-five when she lost her job due to sources. I wrote an article about managing a Ford Foundation my story and understanding of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. the A.T. and race (page 24) to try funded project to help African land acknowledgement outside Shilletha discovered the Trail to shed some light on what is truly traditional healers tell their stories of the general bland academic last year while hiking with her the most under-appreciated and to the world. statements that have become girlfriend and caught the A.T. bug under-discussed part of the Currently, Fred splits his time the recent fad,” he says. “The since then. With a new outlook Trail’s history.” between Maryland and North Trail means so much to so many on life, she has been preparing Carolina where he maintains busy people I thought it was important for an A.T. thru-hike this winter blacksmith forges in both places. to provide a perspective that not (page 26). “I want to make the He is the recipient of numerous everyone knows or even thinks A.T. more accessible to the Black, regional and state awards for about — the daily act of land Indigenous, and People of Color his environmental work, is the acknowledgement for Indigenous (BIPOC) community and address longest serving waterkeeper in the peoples.” (page 16) inequalities and racism within Chesapeake Bay region, and the the hiking community,” she says. only African-American waterkeeper After the A.T., Shilletha will tackle in the nation. He lives and works the second leg of her plan to hike on an active farm located near the the “Triple Crown” on the Pacific Patuxent River that has been his Crest Trail and see where her hiking family’s ancestral home for nearly a career takes her. century. “My aim is to pursue justice for both people and the planet,” he says. “And to also encourage others to experience Mother Nature and forge a personal compact to protect her.” (page 54) 06 A.T. Journeys / Winter 2021 ATJ_ad_Fall_7.375x9.625_02.indd 1 8/26/20 2:51 PM ATJ_ad_Fall_7.375x9.625_02.indd 1 8/26/20 2:51 PM PRESIDENT’S LETTER “WE CANNOT CONTROL OR CHANGE OUR PAST, BUT WE CAN ABSOLUTELY CONTROL OUR CURRENT ACTIONS AND WE CAN INFLUENCE OUR FUTURE THROUGH THOSE ACTIONS.” LOOKING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK THIS YEAR MARKS THE FIRST OF TWO SIGNIFICANT I know that many people will find reading this issue, and milestones for the Appalachian Trail. In 2021, we will celebrate our exploration of aspects of our past we do not often talk the 100-year anniversary of Benton MacKaye’s essay, “An about, a difficult process. It may elicit anger and frustration Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning,” in which or perhaps guilt. Some readers will invariably believe we have, the A.T. was first envisioned. And, in 2025, we will celebrate once again, stepped beyond our purview. Others will recog- the 100th birthday of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. nize the importance of these discussions but still be left These anniversaries help us explore and contemplate our his- unsure how to use the information to inform a better future.
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