March 27, 2015 – Inspired by the travels of his fifth-great grandfather, Michigan mill worker Curtis Penix hiked nearly 240 miles through Appalachian terrain to the site of Fort Boonesborough in northern Kentucky. Penix, 46, walked 16 days along Boone Trace, a winding trail originally cleared by famous frontiersman Daniel Boone and the axe-wielding men accompanying him.
Penix’s ancestor, Joshua Penix, made the same trek in 1779, just four years after Boone blazed the trail. Boone Trace begins near Kingsport, Tennessee, and winds through the Cumberland Gap and parts of Virginia before cutting through to Kentucky.
Link: ABCNews
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