UNION — On Wednesday, February 2, the Vose Library will host another installment of the Vose or Virtual Wednesday series. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held via Zoom.The guest speaker at this event will be Carey Kish.

Carey Kish of Mount Desert Island, Maine is an outdoors and travel writer, veteran hiker and backpacker with more than 20,000 trail miles under his boots.

Kish’s hiking and camping column has appeared in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram for two decades, and his writing and photographs can be found in numerous print and online publications. The author of AMC’s Best Day Hikes Along the Maine Coast and editor of the AMC Maine Mountain Guide, Kish’s latest book is Beer Hiking New England, a guide to 50 hikes paired with 50 craft breweries around the six-state region, will be available this spring. 

The Appalachian Trail has captured the imagination of hikers for more than 80 years, and for those intrepid souls who make the grueling 2,189-mile trek from end-to-end, it is unquestionably the adventure of a lifetime.

One AT thru-hike is enough for most, but not for Carey Kish, who in 2015 at age 56, decided that twice was better (his first AT hike was in 1977). Kish will vividly describe in words and images his 189-day journey, which began in March on Springer Mountain, Georgia and ended in October atop Maine’s majestic Katahdin.

Learn about the trail’s rich history, the amazing mountain scenery, the camaraderie of fellow hikers, the friendly trail towns and precious trail angels, scary wildlife encounters, and the highs and lows of putting one foot in front of the other for six long months.  

Closed Captioning will be available. Call 207-785-4733, email librarian@voselibrary.org or stop by Vose Library to receive a Zoom registration link. The Vose Library is located at 392 Common Road in Union, Maine.