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Guides - In The Athol Daily News

5/28/2015

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In The Athol Daily News

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Caption: GUIDES -- Four hiking enthusiasts active in the North Quabbin Trails Association led others down to Thousand Acre Swamp and back during the recent Red Apple trail system inauguration in Phillipston. Left to right - Paula Boyle, Jean Stone and Marilyn Elwood, all of Orange, and Erica Rader of Winchendon.       Photo by Joann Deacon
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This caption written & submitted by Allen Young, and published in the Athol Daily News today, May 28, 2015. 

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May Gathering

5/27/2015

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Photos By Mike Phillips Photography

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Apple cutting signals opening of Red Apple Trail - Athol Daily News

5/18/2015

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5/18/2015 1:01:00 PM
Apple cutting signals opening of Red Apple Trail - 
Athol Daily News

PHILLIPSTON- Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Worcester) came north Saturday, wearing a T-shirt and sneakers to hike with more than 60 people on a scenic trail, starting at the Red Apple Farm. The destination was a large protected wetland known as Thousand Acre Swamp.

McGovern joined the Rose family patriarch, Bill Rose of Fitzwilliam, N.H., North Quabbin Trails Association founder Bobby Curley of Athol, and others with a "red apple cutting" - an alternative to a traditional ribbon-cutting - marking the grand opening of an elaborate trail system partly on Rose family land.
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TRAIL OPENING -- Bill Rose, father of Al Rose and "patriarch" of the Red Apple Farm family, cuts a unique red apple and a ribbon to officially open an elaborate 16-mile trail system in Phillipston that includes private land and property of the Phillipston Conservation Commission. The red apple was designed and made by Jeanie Stone, a member of the North Quabbin Trails Association (NQTA), developer of the trail system. Left to right -- State Sen. Anne Gobi (D-Spencer), State Rep. Susannah Whipps Lee (R-Athol), NQTA founder Bobby Curley, Bill Rose, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester), NQTA treasurer Attorney Lynne Goodnow, Al Rose, Nancy Rose, and Phillipston Conservation Commissioner Bonnie House. Submitted photo
Orchard proprietors Al and Nancy Rose signed a 10-year trail easement along with Curley and NQTA treasurer Lynne Goodnow. 

State Sen. Anne Gobi (D-Spencer) and State Rep. Susannah Whipps Lee (R-Athol) participated in the ceremony, along with Phillipston Conservation Commissioner Bonnie House.

The new Red Apple Trail System - more than 16 miles with trails heading out from the orchard on both sides of Highland Avenue - was made possible by the signing of 10-year trail easement by the landowners, state authorization and conservation land preserved by town of Phillipston and the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust. It will eventually be linked to  Curley's vision of a Quabbin-to-Monadnock trail system to include 15 overnight shelters that could bring "through hikers" into the region.

There were more than 60 people attending the event Saturday, including a Cub Scout troop based in Templeton. Groups of 20 went on the trail following the apple-cutting. The hikers saw Canada geese, beavers, great blue herons and spring wildflowers such as lady slippers, jack-in-the-pulpit and trillium.

The trail includes the scenic wetland and a section characterized by large boulders called glacial erratics. Maps prepared by NQTA were available for sale. More information is available at nqta.org. 
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Red Apple Trail System Grand Opening 5-16-15

5/16/2015

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Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the day with us!
Thank you Mike for the amazing photos!
Photos by Mike Phillips Photography
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Celtz bringing back lost hikers and enjoying late afternoon on Jacob ledges

5/9/2015

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