In search of an off-beat day trip? This book offers basic information for the casual visitor to canal parks, museums and related historic sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. It includes a guide to attractions along the famed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (where a railroad carried canal boats over a mountain) the National Canal Museum, as well as to canal towns, small museums and out-of-the way canal restorations. The book includes maps, illustrations, historic photographs, a list of canal-related events, publications and organizations. 
If the trip piques your interest in canal history, the book offers an overview of the canal era, lively accounts of how the canals were built and vignettes about the 19th-century leaders who got the job done. Check out the excerpts section for the story of Mathew Carey and a brief summary of Pennsylvania's canal history. 
Finally, you'll find ways to get involved with canal societies and an overview of the canal restoration movement. The book also describes how canal restoration projects are being used as tool for economic development.

Canal Parks, Museums and Characters of the Mid-Atlantic

Travel

Mulligan, Kate

Specialty Travel

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The Misplaced Corpse

Literature & Fiction

Martin, A.E.

Contemporary

In this incisive guide to Wagnr's masterwork, Der Ring des Nibelung en, Peter Bassett explains how Wagner fashioned mythical story with music of such power and expressiveness that it influenced the course of 20th century music. During the course of its four separate dramas, this work for musical stage describes how greed and lust for power inevitably lead to destruction. However, it also points to a new beginning based on hope and love.

A Ring for the Millennium: A Guide to Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Arts & Photography

Bassett, Peter

Music

Ivor Hele was an artist of extraordinary discipline and power. He was also enormously prolific and completed more commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian art. His front-line responses to war, sketched and painted for the Australian War Memorial, the portraits that won him the Archibald prize an astonishing five times during the 1950s, his exuberant nudes (Ivor and his wife swam nude at Maslins beach long before it was fashionable or legal to do so) and his magnificent landscapes of that rugged coastline south of Adelaide - where he lived as a recluse - combine to make up a prodigious body of work. This book focuses on the non-war art in an attempt to offer a wider view of the man, his exceptional ability and his rigorous discipline. It is released to coincide with an exhibition that celebrates his life-long dedication to his art.

Ivor Hele: The Productive Artist

Hylton, Jane

History & Criticism

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