A.T. Museum ~ Update

[Red Wolf]

CLEAN UP DAY ~ 2016 MUSEUM SEASON ! ~ SPECIAL PROGRAM ! ~ AND A MOUNTAIN MUSIC TREAT !

Dear Appalachian Trail Museum Friends,

March 26, 2016 ~ AT Museum opens for the 2016 season !

~ our new Serviceberry tree !

THIS SATURDAY, March 19th. is Clean Up Day !
Joe Harold, Museum Manager, says "Bring your rakes, clippers, and gloves
and help us spruce up the joint for next week's opening."
Just show up at 9 am to 12 noon ~ any amount of your time is appreciated.
For more details, click on: MUSEUM CLEAN UP DAY

SPECIAL PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
Joe Harold, Museum Manager, recently sent me this
to pass along to you.
F.Y.I. ~ SPECIAL PROGRAM
WHEN:
SUNDAY, 4/3/2016 - 2:00 pm
WHAT:
Following in the Footsteps of Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood
Stories of today's Female long-distance hikers

" The Appalachian Trail Museum will host a special program on Sunday, April 3, at 2 PM kicking off
its 2016 Sunday Program Series. The program is part of the Longwood Garden’s Community Read Program,
an educational program designed to encourage reading for pleasure and then start a conversation.
The 2016 Community Read Program features Ben Montgomery’s book Grandma Gatewood’s Walk,
the story of the first woman credited with completing a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail- that is completing
the trail in one continuous hike within one year. The April 3rd program features two local women who followed
in Grandma Gatewood’s footstep by completing thru-hikes of their own. Nancy Robinson of Seven Valleys, PA,
who Section-hiked from 1988-1998, then thru-hiked in 2008, and Jess Culton of York, PA completed a thru-hike
of the Appalachian Trail in 2013 and went on to complete a thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2015.
Introducing these women and adding an historical perspective to the subject of women hikers will be
museum board member Gwen Loose. Copies of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk will be available for sale,
with all proceeds supporting the Appalachian Trail Museum. Programs are free and open to the public."
To review 2016 Schedule of Programs, as well as to see vacant time slots still available,
click on: MUSEUM PROGRAMS
Note: Presenters are being booked now and we hope to offer great stuff throughout the season !
If you have something you would like to present, contact Joe Harold, Museum Manager now!
Your topic can be just about anything, relating to the trail, the outdoors, the park, the area, etc.
If the program can be held outdoors on our Rampatheater, or down by the picnic tables,
all the better. CONTACT: [email protected]

MUSEUM VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES !
F.Y.I. ~ Docent Orientation sessions for volunteer docents are announced,
as well as the Volunteer's Spring Picnic. For more, click on: ORIENTATION SESSIONS

UPCOMING IMPORTANT EVENTS & DATES:
March 18th, 2016 - First Orientation Session
March 19th, 2016 - 9 to Noonish - AT Museum Clean Up Day and Second Orientation Session.
March 20th, 2016 - Third Orientation Session
March 25th, 2016 - Forth Orientation Session
March 26, 2016 - Last Orientation and AT Museum opens for the 2016 season !
April 3rd, 2016 - Annual A.T. Museum Board Meeting
April 16th, 2016 - Volunteer Appreciation Picnic
April 25th,, 2016 - Road Scholar Hike

HOURS ~ CLOSED FOR THE SEASON ~ OPEN MARCH 26 !
2016 HOURS:
March 26 - May 1, Weekends only ~ 12 pm to 4 pm.
May 7 - July 17, Every day ~ 9 am to 4 pm.
July 18 - Aug 21, Every day ~ 12 pm to 4 pm.
Aug 24 - Oct 30, Wed - Sun ~ 12 pm to 4 pm.
(open Labor Day and Columbus Day)

DIRECTIONS TO MUSEUM & LODGING:
click on ~ DIRECTIONS TO MUSEUM

Your support of our A. T. Museum is appreciated and your gives
you the opportunity to be listed on a PERMANENT PLAQUE, which will be hung
in The Museum in June 2017 (see form for listing level details).
We are a federally registered non-profit, and contributions are tax deductible.
For your convenience, here is a printable contribution form, click on: FORM
If you prefer to donate electronically, click on SUPPORT , then the " Donate " button.
OR, just make out a check to the A. T. Museum and mail it to:

Appalachian Trail Museum
~ H. Jay Sexton
1120 Pine Grove Road
Gardners, PA 17324

A MOUNTAIN MUSIC TREAT !

I hope you enjoy these two links to some most excellent mountain bluegrass music ?

This is the music one can find being played each week back in the southern Appalachian
towns and even at the general stores in crossroad hamlets all along the AT !
~ wherever the local musicians can gather with those that enjoy hearing them and their special music.
Many times I've gone up to the community center in Shady Valley (up in the mountains outside
Damascus, VA where the Trail Days Festival is held) to enjoy this type of music. Ditto that for the hamlets
of Konarock and Whitetop (both in the shadow of Mt. Rogers, Virginia's highest mountain. And so it is for
many, in the Southern Appalachians along the AT where one hears this music still being played.

The following two links will take you to the first part and then the second part of a two-hour
show highlighting the Earls of Leicester's performance at the Trustees Theater during the
2015 Savannah Music Festival.
This is the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs as interpreted by the Earls of Leicester.
Click on: EARLS ~ PART 1~ the click on the "RED" arrow

And then for "Part 2", click on: EARLS ~ PART 2

PINE GROVE FURNACE STATE PARK:
Pine Grove Furnace State Park, the Museum's home, has announced
the 2016 State Park Programs, as well as a recent March 11 Press Release
about special "hikes-with-your-dog" programs. To review both, click on:
PARK PROGRAMS~ and click on: HOUND WALK

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HAPPY TRAILS !

Robert Charles Croyle, Membership Secretary
aka "Red Wolf o'da Smoky's"
<[email protected]>
Museum website: www.atmuseum.org
Here is where the upper-ramp will join the existing porch landing:




Ginger and the new upper-ramp (near the porch landing):

PS: F.Y.I. ~

LETTER from Paul Wylezol, Chairperson of the International Appalachian Trail (IAT / SIA)
Among the many international subjects treated in the body of his letter, is a photo taken of the A. T. Museum
on opening day in June 2010; it is found on page 21 of the Spring 2016 Issue of Earth Heritage Magazine.
His letter has the link to this magazine, AND several other interesting links !
To view Paul Wylezol's letter, click on: IAT / SIA - LETTER

~ Robert "RED WOLF o'da SMOKY'S"