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As the article says, Mt. Katahdin is the end point of the Appalachian Trail.

J. R. Tate, who has hiked the entire Appalachian Trial 3 times (the first time at the age of 55), has written an entertaining memoir of his first hike called Walkin' on the Happy Side of Misery. An excellent read. The "thru-hikers" take trail names--his was Model T. He named his dog Katahdin.

The stretch of the trail in New Hampshire includes climbing Mt. Washington. There are other peaks in the vicinity named for Presidents but others for non-Presidents such as Lafayette. There is a Mt. Clinton--Tate jokes about whether Clinton was one of Presidents before or after the Civil War, since he was writing that in 1990, when no one knew there would be a President Clinton. The good old days.

5 posted on 01/10/2014 1:21:17 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Roxanne Quimby. . .

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The lip balm, which was launched in 1991, proved to be a hit, and the company, known as Burt's Bees, grew in profitability. She bought out Mr. Shavitz in 1993, and sold the company in 2007 for $350 million.

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6 posted on 05/23/2014 10:54:08 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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