Maurice Forrester

Maurice Forrester has spent his entire adult life advocating for and documenting the Appalachian Trail, as well as other trails in his native Pennsylvania.  From 1975 to 1992, he served Appalachian Trail Conference as Treasurer, Newsletter Editor and member of the Board of Managers.  He served as Chair of ATC’s 1989 Biennial meeting in East Stroudsburg, PA.    He was a founding director of the Appalachian Trail Museum, leading the effort to secure its home in the Old Mill building at Pine Grove Furnace State Park.  Here, he is shown hiking in 1975.  He served as editor of several editions of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania.  He is co-author of A Grip On The Mane Of Life, the definitive biography of Earl Shaffer, the A.T.’s first thru-hiker.  He also wrote the forward to Earl Shaffer’s famous autobiography, Walking With Spring and to Larry Luxenberg’s Walking The Appalachian Trail.  

Maurice Forrester was a 2016 inductee into the Appalachian Trail Museum Hall of Fame:

https://www.atmuseum.org/2016-class.html

The above information was provided with permission, compliments of the Appalachian Trail Museum and its manager Julie Queen