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An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

By: Richard Federman, Rewild NJ Movement Member On the morning of April 18, 1921 a woman named Betty Hardy Stubbs, one of the nation’s leading women’s suffrage activists, ran from New York’s Grand Central Station to a bridge spanning the East River, and jumped. Her husband, a kindly and idealistic former Professor of Forestry named…