Appalachian Trail Stories with authors Mills Kelly and Dave Pruett

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#### Appalachian Trail Stories with authors Mills Kelly and Dave Pruett

Scrawl Books, Reston, VA
Sunday Dec 7th, 2025
4:00 PM

A Hiker's History of the Appalachian Trail tells the story from the top down, focusing on who proposed the trail, who built it, who maintain it, and on a few of the most famous hikers. A Hiker’s History of Appalachian Trail tells the trail’s history from the boots up. Working with trail shelter logbooks, hiker accounts, newspaper and magazine stories about the experiences of casual hikers, Mills Kelly reveals what it was like to hike the trail from the late 1920s until the 2020s.

He'll be joined in conversation by Dave Pruett, author of Hiking the AT in the Virginias.

Mills Kelly is a Professor of History at George Mason University and Senior Scholar at the award-winning Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Dave Pruett is a long-term resident of the Shenandoah Valley who, following his semi-retirement in 2012, section-hiked the entire AT through the Virginias over nine summers, completing it in 2023 at age seventy-five. Pruett previously worked in the aerospace industry at NASA Langley Research Center and taught mathematics and computational science at Virginia Commonwealth University, the College of William and Mary, and James Madison University. His first book, Reason and Wonder received a Choice Award from the American Library Association.