Oct 27, 2021
In this episode of The Green Tunnel we tell the story of the
settler communities that existed along the route of the Appalachian
Trail before the AT arrived. We've chosen three examples of those
communities, each of which helps tell the story of life in the
Appalachian mountains before Benton MacKaye dreamed up the AT in
1921. One community was home to people recently emancipated from
enslavement, another was a thriving coal mining and railroad town
until the mines played out, and the people of the third community
had to rally their friends and neighbors to try to find a little
boy who had wandered away from his schoolhouse in 1891. What was
life like in the Appalachian mountains before the trail?
Find show notes, including a full transcript, at https://greentunnel.rrchnm.org/episode-2-what-came-before/.