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Guests: Laura Moulton; Cassie Brandt
As August comes to a close, we begin to wrap up our series on great horse trails. In this episode, we hike the Katy Trail in Missouri with Trail Manager Cassie Brandt.
We’ve had customers tell us how much they love Katy and that listening to Cassie might just make you want to add her to your bucket list.
Before we hit the trail, my first guest today is . In 2011, I spoke with Laura about her three-month art project, Street Books, in Portland, Oregon.
Fast forward 13 years! And Laura was sort of thrust into an administrative position as executive director of the nonprofit. Today, Street Books has grown from one bicycle library to three with a set schedule, thousands of books loaned out for free each year, and an incredibly inspiring story. I can’t imagine you wouldn’t find this project important and comforting.
In addition to the link to “Loaners,” the book she and “Hodge” wrote, here is a 
second link to the Librarian Summit on YouTube.
If you think you would like to start a project like Street Books in your community, log on to streetbooks.org and contact Laura. I don’t see any reason why this wouldn’t be welcome in any neighborhood.
The Katy Trail is the longest rail trail in the Rails-to-Trails network, consisting of 240 mostly flat miles. Yeah! Especially flat!
Managed on a daily basis by four state parks, Cassie’s job is to make sure the trail is monitored for any problems, even offering a lost and found for cell phones that sometimes seem to be forgotten. Let’s take a quick tour of the Katy and find out what you can see, what you can do (besides riding) and of course where you can eat and stay.
My thanks to Cassie for joining me to fill us in on all things Katy-Trail. Here is a 
photo of the Tournesol silo and a link to the Sedalia Depot. I think this should be one of our bucket list items.
Our new YouTube channel will be live soon and, although we won’t be uploading a video, you will be able to listen to it if your preferred media is YouTube! We will also add the link to the channel on the website.
Next time on TOC, we’ll speak with Bruce Donald, the ECG CT Manager. He has so much knowledge about not only the CT portions of the route, but much of the southern New England region.
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