Excursion 68, a plan to promote tourist sights, aims to incorporate the Dartmouth College Library and New Hampshire as part of a single attraction tour. The tour, which is designed for excursionists interested in architecture and the arts, runs along 50 miles of U.S. Interstate 68. Currently, New Hampshire offers multi-site Golden Pond and Robert Frost Tours. The Frost tour takes explorers along a trail marked with well-known places in his poems, including his farmhouse and the College library, to view Frost's papers. Bill Egan, a resident of Canterbury, N.H., and a frequent visitor of Frost's farm, believes that a limited number of people will take advantage of the tour initially, but, in time, the numbers will rise. "I'm imagining it will grow. It has to be in large part people that have an understanding of Frost," Egan said. This summer, Excursion 68 plans to launch a website and may also advertise through brochures and billboards. "When they pool their resources they can have a major-league website and they can be competitive," said Allen Kay, spokesman for the Travel Industry Association of America.
Lyme Timber Company, based in Hanover, N.H., will acquire International Paper Company's Adirondack Park forest, it announced earlier this month. In exchange, Lyme Timber will supply wood for International Paper Co.'s mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y., for 20 years. In a plan to repay debt, International Paper Co. has agreed to sell a total of 275,000 acres of New York state forestland for $137 million. The company will keep approximately 830,000 acres, which it may sell at a later date. International Paper Co., North America's largest paper maker, has raised about $6.6 billion from sales of U.S. timberland in the past two weeks and has mostly completed the transactions targeted last year, CEO John Faraci said in the statement.
