The project is one for a series of recreational communities throughout the Appalachian chain of mountains from New England to Georgia, these to be connected by a walking trail. Its purpose is to establish a base for a more extensive and systematic development of outdoors community life. It is a project in housing and community architecture. No scheme is proposed in this particular article for organizing or financing this project. Organizing is a matter of detail to be carefully worked out.
Financing depends on local public interest in the various localities affected.
Specially good work in trail building has been accomplished by the Appalachian Mountain Club in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and by the Green Mountain Club in Vermont. Here is a project that will logically be extended. What the Green Mountains are to Vermont the Appalachians are to eastern United States. The trail should be divided into sections, each consisting preferably of the portion lying in a given State, or subdivision thereof. Each section should be in the immediate charge of a local group of people.