A handbook for Ohio's Hill Country Heritage Area is now available at your local library, and to OHCHA members.

To receive a copy of Telling Our Story, Building Our Future please complete the membership application and send $20.00 for an annual Individual membership, $35.00 for an annual Organization/Small Business membership, or $100.00 for a Sustaining membership to Ohio's Hill Country Heritage Area, P.O. Box 328, Athens, Ohio 45701.

This publication, written by Jeff Darbee and Nancy Recchie, Benjamin D. Ricky & Co. is designed as a "handbook" to be used by organizations, communities, or groups of communities that want to increase awareness and appreciation of their heritage assets. It will help them conduct a Heritage Assessment to identify their heritage assets; analyze those assets to determine the stories they can tell; develop the best methods for telling those stories; and, through real-life case studies show how heritage can be brought to life in any community.