Anyone following the story of Paul's Boots? http://www.ducttapethenbeer.com/paulsboots/
Paul Evans was from Australia. He always wanted to hike the AT, but passed away in 2014. His wife reached out to the folks at the Dirtbag Diaries hoping to find someone who could take a pair of his boots onto the AT and send her a photo. Dirtbag Diaries, with help for REI, organized volunteers to take 3 pairs of his boots along the entire trail. They are making there way now, and people are posting great photos on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/paulwalkson/
I did a search and was surprised there was not already a thread on WB (maybe I missed it).
I thought others would enjoy this touching and uplifting story.