The Spirit of the Appalachian Trail: Community, Environment, and Belief

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noTeS Preface 1. Susan Bratton, Christianity, Wilderness and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire (Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2009); Belden Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 2. Jamie Korngold, God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi (New York: Doubleday, 2007) 3. Mike Comins, A Wild Faith: Jewish Ways into Wilderness, Wilderness Ways into Judaism (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Press, 2007). 4. John Lionberger, Renewal in the Wilderness: A Spiritual Guide to Connecting with God in the Natural World (Woodstock, VT: Skylight Press, 2007). 5. Laura Waterman and Guy Waterman, Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains (Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 2003). 6. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (New York: Penguin Books, 2000). 7. Stephen Altschuler, The Mindful Hiker: On the Trail to Find the Path (Camarillo, CA: DeVorss Publications, 2004). 8. Jill Dubisch, “Healing ‘the wounds that are not visible’: A Vietnam veterans’ motorcycle pilgrimage,” in Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman, Pilgrimage and Healing (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005), 135–54. 9. Lee Gilmore, “Embers, dust, and ashes: Pilgrimage and healing at the Burning Man Festival,” in Dubish and Winkelman, Pilgrimage and Healing, 155–78. 10. Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001). 11. Because I am often asked, I have, as of this writing, walked somewhere between seven hundred and eight hundred miles of the AT one-way, and because I have strolled some sections multiple times, and most of the sections I have covered were walked in both directions, my total mileage is more than 1,600. I am most familiar with the southern end of the AT, specifically the Great Smokies, and am least familiar with the far north. notes to pages 2–10 232 Chapter 1 1. Russell Johnson and Kerry Moran, Tibet’s Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary Pilgrimage to Mount Kailas (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1989). 2. James Harpur, Sacred Tracks: 2000 Years of Christian Pilgrimage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 3. Marc P. Keane, Japanese Garden Design (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996); David A. Slawson, Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values (Tokyo: Kodansha Int., 1987). 4. Information on the history of the Trail may be found on the official Web site of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, www.appalachiantrail.org. 5. S. Steven Hawks, 1994, “Spiritual health: definition and theory,” Wellness Perspectives 10, no. 1: 3–13. Paul Heintzman’s leisure studies articles utilize this definition. 6. Gordon Mursell, ed., Christian Spirituality: Two Thousands Years from East to West (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), 9. 7. Benton MacKaye, “An Appalachian Trail: A project in regional planning,” Journal of the American Institute of Architects 9 (October 1921): 325–30. Larry Anderson, Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner and Creator of the Appalachian Trail (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) contains a copy of the original proposal on pages 372–79. See also Waterman and Waterman, Forest and Crag; Georgia Appalachian Trail Club History Committee, Friendships of the Trail: The History of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, 1930–1980 (Atlanta: Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, 1995). 8. Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980); Robert L. McGrath, Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001). 9. John Gatta, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in American from the Puritans to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 10. I wrote this section after hearing William Cronan speak at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Tx, on November 10, 2007. Cronan was interpreting an exhibit of the photographs of Frank Goehlke, many of which unite human development with natural features, rather than separating them. 11. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy Web site provides statistics on 2,000-milers. 12. Victor Turner and Edith Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978); Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). notes to pages 10–15 233 13. Joseph L. Price, “Naturalistic Recreations,” in Peter van Ness, ed., Spirituality and the Sacred Quest (New York: Crossroads Press, 1996), 414–44. 14...