| Title | Canal fever : the Ohio & Erie Canal, from waterway to canalway / edited by Lynn Metzger and Peg Bobel, with illustrations by Chuck Ayers.
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| Published | Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2009.
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| Description | x, 382 p. : ill., maps, music ; 27 cm.
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| ISBN | 9781606350133 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1606350137 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Preface and acknowledgments / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Part 1: Historic Ohio & Erie Canal -- 1: History of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Sam Tamburro -- Side bar: Where the canal meets the road / Glenn Harper -- 2: Building the canals: the engineers / Jack Gieck -- 3: Mucking through: common labor on the Ohio & Erie Canal / George Knepper -- 4: Natural history, natural resources, and the Ohio & Erie Canal / Joseph T Hannibal -- 5: 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 -- 6: Hands of the diligent / Kathleen Fernandez -- 7: Voices on the canal / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- 8: East versus west: the industrial valley / Richard Sicha -- Part 2: Long Twilight -- 9: Railroad fever and canals in Ohio / H Roger Grant -- Sidebar: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic railroad-today / Robert W Bobel -- 10: William Bennett's Navarre, the canal town / Sam Tamburro -- 11: Crossing the cultural fault line: the historic landscape of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Glenn Harper -- 12: Rising water and waning support: the Ohio & Erie Canal's final years / Peg Bobel -- Sidebar: Canal maintenance in the twenty-first century / Peg Bobel -- 13: Ditch and the path in the backyard / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Sidebar: What is in a name? / Sam Tamburro -- Part 3: Cultural Preservation To Canal Renaissance -- 14: Saving the "little silver ribbon" / Bob Downing and Russ Musarra -- Sidebar: Magnolia and the Sandy & Beaver Canal / Russ Musarra -- 15: Reading the past / Lynn Metzger -- 16: Grassroots and connections / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- 17: 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: Trail ahead / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Appendix: Interviews for Canal Fever -- Contributors -- Index.
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| Summary Note | Summary: From the Publisher: Combining original essays based on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fever showcases the research and writing of the best and most knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and enthusiasts. Each contributor brings his or her expertise to tell the canal's story in three parts: the canal era - the creation of the canal and its importance to Ohio's early growth; the canal's decline - the decades when the canal was merely a ditch and path in backyards all over northeast Ohio; and finally the rediscovery of this old transportation system and its transformation into a popular recreational resource, the Ohio & Erie Canalway." "Included are many voices from the past, such as canalers, travelers, and immigrants, stories of canal use through various periods, and current interviews with many individuals involved in the recent revitalization of the canal. Accompanying the essays are a varied and interesting selection of photographs of sites, events, and people, as well as original maps and drawings by artist Chuck Ayers." Canal Fever takes a broad approach to the canal and what it has meant to Ohio from its original function in the state's growth its present-day function in revitalizing our region. Canal buffs, historians, educators, engineers, and those interested in urban revitalization will appreciate its extensive use of primary source materials and will welcome this comprehensive collection.
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| Acq. Note Source | Gift of Joe Hannibal, 2013.
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| Subjects | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) -- History.
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| Other Authors | Metzger, Lynn.
Bobel, Peg.
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| LC Card Number | 2008-51859 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 34 NC M596 C212 2009
CA-1300386 c.1: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 144438] |
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