NCT Helps Promote Ohio Cultural Toursim

from the Ohio University Zanesville Campus, "Exploring Appalachia", by Nichole Medaugh, Nov 24, 2008

... "If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you are going to go. You have to know the past to evaluate what's gone on to move forward," said Winnenberg.

Helping the areas efforts is the 4,600 mile North Country Trail that begins in New York and will continue through Wayne National Forest and Burr Oak State Park.

"It does bring in tourists that shop in the local stores and eat in the restaurants," said Regional Coordinator North Country Trail Andrew Bashaw. "The other thing is the quality of life, the trail being built here and the people from here can use the trail for everything they want..." more