Thank you Jennifer Wentz for a great story she wrote for the Hanover Evening Sun about the possible activities to complete the Grand History Trail in Adams County. Here’s an excerpt: “It started with a map sketched on a napkin about 10 years ago. Don Gogniat, a past board member of the York County Rail Trail Authority, and Gwen Loose, the…
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On a Personal Note: Honored and Surprised to receive this from the York County Rail Trail Authority
York County Rail Trail Authority presents 2014 York County Rail Trail Awards For the Daily Record/Sunday News Carl Knoch, Rail Trail chairman, left, presents the Trail Organization Award to Diane Folger, a board member from New Freedom Heritage and the organizer of the fifth annual New Freedom Fest Event. New Freedom Heritage received the award. It operates a local history…
Final Major Health System on the GHT Endorses the Project
Yesterday I met with Thomas Kleinhanzl, Present and CEO of the Frederick Memorial Hospital. He greatly supported the concept of the GHT going through Frederick to serve the residents of his service area. With his endorsement of the Grand History Trail, all of the major health systems along the trail have agreed that the completion of the trail would be…
Gettysburg Summit Yeilds Results
The following email was sent by Tom Jolin. It is not a complete summary of the summit meeting, but it is an action plan for the future. Great work by Tom. Thank you for all of this community effort. Hello Everyone, I’ll soon be sending out a summary of the GHT Economic Summit held on Oct. 30. However I’m going to…
Gettysburg leaders support Grand History Trail
Our Grand History Trail Summit at Gettysburg National Military Park was a success. Check out coverage from the Gettysburg Times (subscribers can check out the online version here for free): We’re also pleased about this column that ran in Saturday’s paper, too:
Big Meeting Today in Gettysburg
Here is the press release for the meeting today in Gettysburg. Tom Jolin has gathered the people in the community needed to make the decision to move forward on the Grand History Trail in Adams County. Healthy Adams Bicycle/Pedestrian, Inc. Press Release October 30, 2014 Contacts: Tom Jolin of HABPI [email protected] 717-398-1144 Carl Knoch at York County…
Kev Hawn is the Man!!!!
Kev Hawn has just completed a three day run of the entire Grand History Trail ( the portions currently completed). This is a total of 140 miles – in three days. An ultra marathoner, this is the longest run he has ever attempted. His goal was to be the first to run the loop, and to bring some publicity to…
Bike Maryland sees the Grand History Trail as a great benefit for residents of the Mid-Altantic area.
In a conversation with Nate Evans, Executive Director of Bike Maryland, he has agreed that the Grand History Trail would be a great regional attraction for the Mid-Atlantic area. He commented that his organization is working to fill in some of the small gaps that exist between the existing trails near D.C., Annapolis, and Baltimore. His leadership is appreciated and…
Cheer on first person to run the completed portion of Grand History Trail
Local long-distance runner Kev Hawn plans to be the first person to run the completed portion of the Grand History Trail Oct. 17-19. Come out and support Kev as he makes his way around the trail. Click the flyer below to get his planned route and schedule. Hope to see you on the trail!
Kev Hawn is going to be the first person to run the entire Grand History Trail (October 17-19th)
Go out and support this ultra marathoner as he makes his way around all of the completed sections of the Grand History Trail.