Canal fever [electronic resource] : the Ohio & Erie Canal, from waterway to canalway / edited by Lynn Metzger and Peg Bobel, with illustrations by Chuck Ayers

Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2009.
Physical Description: x, 382 p. : ill., maps, music ; 27 cm.
Additional Creators: Metzger, Lynn and Bobel, Peg

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Contents

The history of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Sam Tamburro. Side bar: where the canal meets the road / Glenn Harper -- Building the canals : the engineers / Jack Gieck -- Mucking through : common labor on the Ohio & Erie Canal / George Knepper -- Natural history, natural resources, and the Ohio & Erie Canal / Joseph T. Hannibal -- A traveler's tale : along the Ohio & Erie Canal in 1834 : Maximilian, Prince of Wied : an annotated translation / Joseph T. Hannibal, Sabina F. Thomas, and Michael G. Noll -- The hands of the diligent / Kathleen Fernandez -- Voices on the canal / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- East versus west : the industrial valley / Richard Sicha -- Railroad fever and canals in Ohio / H. Roger Grant. Sidebar : Cuyahoga Valley scenic railroad - today / Robert W. Bobel -- William Bennett's Navarre, the canal town / Sam Tamburro -- Crossing the cultural fault line : the historic landscape of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Glenn Harper -- Rising water and waning support : the Ohio & Erie Canal's final years / Peg Bobel. Sidebar : canal maintenance in the twenty-first century / Peg Bobel -- The ditch and the path in the backyard / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger. Sidebar : what is in a name? / Sam Tamburro -- Saving the "little silver ribbon" / Bob Downing and Russ Musarra. Sidebar : magnolia and the Sandy & Beaver Canal / Russ Musarra -- Reading the past / Lynn Metzger -- Grassroots and connections / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Journey to canalway / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger. Sidebar : the Ohio & Erie canalway scenic byway / Rory Robinson. Sidebar : heritage development : the stewardship ethic for the twenty-first century / Daniel M. Rice -- Epilogue : the trail ahead / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger.

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