To those who would see the Maine wilderness, tramp day by day through a succession of ever delightful forest, past lake and stream, and over mountains, we would say: Follow the Appalachian Trail across Maine. It cannot be followed on horse or awheel. Remote for detachment, narrow for chosen company, winding for leisure, lonely for contemplation, it beckons not merely north and south but upward to the body, mind and soul of man.
--Myron Avery, In the Maine Woods, 1934

Myron Avery is the first "2,000 miler"--seeing as how he measured the original trail. If not for his efforts, in fact, there would be no trail. And he hails from good old Lubec (Sun rises first!) Maine.