Ace Coffee shows support for National Park Service amid federal layoffs

CAVE CITY, Ky. – Shop owner Letitia Cline is using what resources she can to help support those who tend to her passion – national park workers.

Cline has a long family history associated with the Mammoth Cave area, growing up just one mile away from the park entrance, along with her family owning rock and gift shops for years and sharing lineage with famous cave explorer Floyd Collins.

The business woman explained that 78% of Ace’s revenue comes from tourism, showing how interconnected the community above is with what lies below. After being open just one year now, Cline is offering discounts to any national park worker as a show of support.

Cline is the explorative type, visiting 59 national parks and dozens of national forests and monuments while on her travels across the country via motorcycle when she worked as a journalist hoping to foster a love for nature in others.

With layoffs also affecting Mammoth Cave, Cline said she fears for her own backyard as well as park, forests and monuments across the nation that she feels are an integral part of the country’s history that need to be protected.