Maine Memory Network

North Atlantic Appalachian Domain map, 2007

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2007 Media: Ink on paper

IAT annual general meeting, Maine Chapter, Shin Pond, 2006

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2006 Location: Shin Pond Media: Digital image

Building the International Appalachian Trail

Wildlife biologist Richard Anderson first proposed the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) in 1993. The IAT is a long-distance hiking trail along the modern-day Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountain ranges, geological descendants of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains. Today, the IAT stretches from the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, through portions of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Europe, and into northern Africa.

Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"The Appalachian Trail Conference’s chairman from 1931 until his death in 1952. Chronicler of North Lubec history and extensive writer on mountains…"