The national NAMIWalk effort is now 10 years old and this was the first such held in Rome. Based on this initial outcome, it appears certain to become an annual event — one of a growing number of fund-raising and awareness-raising walks held locally.
Plainly Greater Romans know the meaning of the saying about “walking a mile in their shoes.” Perhaps that is because one of the origins of that saying is generally attributed to be from an old Cherokee proverb that must have rubbed off on current residents of the former Cherokee Nation.







