Please join us on Sunday, October 27th at 2:00 at the Bent Mountain Center to welcome author Mills Kelly.  Mills wrote the book Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail.  He will be discussing the book as well as selling copies of the book and signing them. We will have light refreshments after his talk. 

For more than two decades, hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia walked through some of the most beautiful landscapes of the southern Appalachian Mountains, passing through Bent Mountain Floyd, Patrick, and Carroll counties on its way south. Then, in 1952, the Appalachian Trail Conference moved 300 miles of the trail more than 50 miles to the west. This change was the single largest re-routing of the AT in the trail’s long history. In his latest book, historian and lifelong AT section hiker Mills Kelly tells the story of a part of the history of the Appalachian Trail that is all but forgotten by hikers, but not by the residents of the southwestern Virginia counties that the trail used to cross. Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail is thus a history of the AT and a story of the power of memory in rural communities traversed by the trail.