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Other than trail journals, though perhaps included in trail journals, is there a list of ...
poems, short stories, or novels, either fiction or non-fiction,
not neccessarily about hiking, but ...
... written while actually hiking, or sitting, on the Appalachian Trail?
Not neccessarily published. Perhaps just posted on the Internet someplace.
A list of Trail journals which include short stories or poems would be very nice.
Is there anyway to search for trail journals which would contain such works?
How about Songs and Music written while hiking, camping, on the Appalachian Trail???
anything? limericks? beuller?
Bulldawg
07-04-2008, 17:24
Hello, ANYONE?
Homer&Marje
07-04-2008, 21:01
Hiking the AT
How sweet it can be
brings us closer to peace and serenity
STOP HONKING I"M HIKING!!!!!!!!!
this has been a spike lee joint
Check here: Books For Hikers (http://booksforhikers.com/)
Not sure if it is exactly what you're looking for but lotsa good stuff.
Skittles on TJ wrote poems almost daily.
Nicksaari
07-05-2008, 20:58
if my thoughts on the trail could be caught and captured, i would be able to write an album of songs and music, finish a novel, a comedy skit, and get arrested- all at the same time. me and my bipolar brain.
saimyoji
07-05-2008, 21:28
wasn't there a haiku thread some time ago? maybe that was trailtalk.
saimyoji
07-05-2008, 21:31
wasn't there a haiku thread some time ago? maybe that was trailtalk.
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13172&highlight=haiku
Good stuff here:
http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/index.php?title=haiku&age=9999
shelterbuilder
07-06-2008, 17:57
I very rarely write anything anymore because it takes me so many re-writes to get it perfect. (My journal entries are mostly weather and mileage entries, which is sad....) But the last trip I made (in Pa., from the Hamburg Reservoir to the Eagle's Nest shelter and back), I started thinking about that particular section of trail (many years ago, the first trip that was longer than a weekend), myself, and the changes that both the trail and myself had undergone...I scribbled down a few thoughts, came home, and wrote a nice little article that may appear in JOURNEYS in the near future.
Sometimes, you just get it right!
frequency
07-22-2008, 17:07
Good topic - currently struggling (revise, rewrite, revise, rewrite) with pushing out a short story that will have the trail as a central element based (very loosley) on actual experiences and others encountered there. Trying to find a SOBO that I met in 1998 who had a microfleece kilt he made by stitching a web belt to two yards of cloth and was ultraultralight...he had long red hair, a full red beard and a scottish dagger suspended from his neck by a leather cord. Wish I could talk to him again...
Sleepy the Arab
07-22-2008, 18:44
"Here I sit all broken-hearted..."
I know a limerick about a thru-hiker from Nantucket...
The best story I read written by a hiker while on the trail was by that fanatic reactionary, Abner Serd. It was a tale of a star constellation that came out of the sky to walk the earth. He named the constellation, Pedestrio. It was a marvelous piece of writing. A truly beautiful piece.
If you can find it, Abner did a radio broadcast of his hike that is online somewhere.
BTW, he walked from AZ to GA to hike to ME. Hadn't been in a car in 15 years. Never took a ride on the trail. Thus, fanatic reactionary. It's usually the "touched" who end up the best writers.
SGT Rock
07-22-2008, 23:12
I came up with the plot for an Adam Sandler movie about the AT while hiking.
kayak karl
07-23-2008, 02:10
I know a limerick about a thru-hiker from Nantucket...
There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
I found a musician a few years back that thru-hiked the AT - Clarence Bucaro. If I recall correctly, some of the songs from his first album, "Sweet Corn", were written/inspired while on the trail. The album is really great if you like blues/roots/bluegrass/jazz. www.clarencebucaro.com (http://www.clarencebucaro.com/). I always thought about his song "Sweet Laurel" when I saw mountain laurel along the trail. :)