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Love History and Public Speaking? Volunteer With Us!canals.org Has New WebsiteThe Celebration ContinuesImmersion Days Off to Great Start2014 Trail Outlook

Love History and Public Speaking?Volunteer With Us!It’s not all hard labor aroundhere these days. Thanks to lastyear’s alliance of the D&L andNational Canal Museum, we’reable to offer new volunteeropportunities that also focus onhistory, but don’t requireswinging a pick axe or pruningtrees.

The D&L has long relied on its Trail Tenders volunteers to assistmunicipalities along the D&L Trail with trail maintenance andthe preservation of canal locks and other structures left from thedays of mule-drawn boats and steam locomotives.

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Get Your Tail on theTrail Begins 2nd yearWelcome NewMembers!Revitalizing OurLandmark Towns200-year-oldconnection in NewHopeNews from the NCMArchivesVolunteers . . .THANK YOU!Catasauqua's OldHome Week

Delivering Results for 25Years

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Spring 2014 - Volume 5 - No. 1 | Inspiring Connections

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Trail Tenders have done - and continue to do - a tremendous jobkeeping the historic, long-distance D&L Trail open to the public.Now we're branching out.

New emphasis is being placed on volunteer opportunities at theNational Canal Museum in Hugh Moore Park, Easton, at Lock44 in Freemansburg, and at Lock 23 in Walnutport. Volunteersare needed at all those locations to tell the stories of our past asmuseum guides, field trip docents and special-eventinterpreters. We’re also hoping to attract folks who areinterested in leading historic and environmental walks or bikerides along the trail.

We’re anxious to get started and are looking for volunteers now.In fact, we’re beginning museum guide training at the NationalCanal Museum on May 12 at 1 p.m. If you live in the Easton areaand are interested, please consider joining us.

Want to get involved with any of our education programs? Get intouch with Dennis Scholl, our Director of Education andMuseum Services at 610-923-3548 x225 email Dennis atdennis@delawareandlehigh.org. He’ll be happy to provide youwith all the details.

canals.org Has New WebsiteA new website for the NationalCanal Museum is online atcanals.org, thanks to work by theDelaware and Lehigh NationalHeritage Corridor staff with localwebsite designer Michael Duck ofWebfoot Digital.

Duck is designing a site that canautomatically reformat itself tolook great on whatever kind of computer, tablet, or smartphoneyou use to access it. In addition to updating the look and feel ofCanals.org, the new site will make it even easier to learn aboutwhat's happening at the museum and Hugh Moore Park whilealso helping to attract new visitors.

By Elissa Garofalo, D&LPresident/Executive Director

Ever since President RonaldReagan signed legislationcreating the Delaware &Lehigh National HeritageCorridor Commission, we havelistened to our stakeholders,and created great experiencesfor them. We listen to ourcommunities and engage inprojects that improve yourquality of life. We focus ontangible results that make adifference for you and thepeople around you. Wepromise inspiration – greatrelationships, memorableexperiences and meaningfulconnections.

The D&L was established topreserve the 165-mile historicpathway that carried coal andiron from Wilkes-Barre toPhiladelphia. Today, it’s theD&L Trail that connectsresidents and visitors tonature, culture, communities,recreation and our industrialheritage along the way.

At first, our funding cameprimarily from the NationalPark Service and thePennsylvania Department of

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"We want to help connect people with the great resources at themuseum and the park, whether they're parents planning a trip toEaston, cyclists looking for information on the towpath, or justsomeone on a smartphone who needs directions to the canalboat," said Duck, whose business is based in Bethlehem.

The new site is scheduled to go online in early May. For moreinformation about Webfoot Digital, visit webfootdigital.com orfollow Webfoot Digital on Facebook or Twitter.

The Celebration ContinuesThroughout the year, theDelaware & Lehigh NationalHeritage Corridor will celebrate25 years of connections,preservation, revitalization andsustainability. Through the hardwork of a talented staff anddedicated cadre of partners,innovative educational,interpretive and wellnessprograms have grown. And with only 15 per cent of the trail leftto build, we are nearing completion of the coveted D&L Trail.These accomplishments would not have been realized withoutamazing help from our members, sponsors, funders, communitypartners and local, state and federal governments.

This spring, the D&L kicked off the celebration by hosting threeluncheons, one in each of our three regions, to mark our silveranniversary and recognize partners. The camaraderie, venuesand food attracted guests who have been influential throughoutthe years.

New Hope’s Logan Inn was the site for the first luncheon inBucks County. The D&L Commission’s first Chairman, WillRivinus, commented on the impressive legacy of the D&L, theonly organization leading a regional effort to create and promotea network based on the region’s common heritage.To continue,click here.

Conservation and NaturalResources. It was this financialsupport that allowed 10 solidyears of planning and the aninclusive process to developour Management Action Plan,Visually Speaking (ourgraphics and designstandards), InterpretiveEducation Plan (the frameworkto tell our nationally significantstory) and the D&L TrailWorkbook.

The D&L’s second decade wasdedicated to executing theplans. Partners joined forceswith us to begin interpretingthe mines-to-market story onwayside panels, volunteerssigned up to become TrailTenders, and the MarketTowns and Landmark Townsinitiatives began revitalizingour smaller communities. Afavorite of many, Miles ofMules drew attention to ourstory in a very creative andvisible way. Tales of theTowpath transformed howlocal history is taught in ourelementary schools. Ninety-eight percent of theD&L Trail was in publicownership by 2008.

The last five years have been -and the coming five will be -dedicated to building the D&LTrail and sustaining our coreheritage resources for thefuture. New backing from theWilliam Penn Foundation hasmade the vehicle for long-termstewardship possible. Theformation of the D&L TrailAlliance created the means forlandowners and stakeholdersto meet regularly and sharebest practices. The D&L Trailhas been embraced by theCircuit, Philadelphia’s

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Immersion Days Off to Great StartImmersion Days – the NationalCanal Museum's spring studentfield trip - kicked off in HughMoore Park on April 29 when thefirst of 1,800 elementarystudents scheduled to visitthrough June 4 took part in avariety of interactive lessons that introduced them to the scienceand technology behind canal construction and operation.

Eighty per cent of this year's Immersion students already havebeen immersed in canal life before they take the field trip. That’sbecause they’ve studied the D&L’s Tales of the Towpath socialstudies curriculum in the classroom for 4-6 weeks. Tales of theTowpath familiarizes the students with canal terminology andconcepts and a lot more. During Immersion Days, they act outparts of the curriculum's science and culture concepts throughlessons on simple machines, friction and buoyancy,blacksmithing and the geology behind it, and everyday life onthe canal. Pulling the 96,000-pound Josiah White II canal boatis a big hit with everyone. So is blowing melodious tones on aconch shell, the communication tool of choice along the Lehighand Delaware canals in the 1800s. And there's scarcely a studentwho wouldn't like to take home Hank and George, the park'samiable thousand-pound boat-pulling mules.

“Our staff does a tremendous job explaining science and cultureto these boys and girls,” said Dennis Scholl, the D&L’s Directorof Education and Museum Services. “They break it down interminology that is easily understood and also matched to stateacademic standards. It’s not boring; not to the kids or theteachers.”

For more information on Immersion Days, contact DennisScholl at 610-923-3548 x225 or dennis@delawareandlehigh.org.

2014 Trail OutlookThe new construction year is offto a good start with the recent

Regional Trail Network as aconduit to the Lehigh Valley. Nearly 10 new miles of trailwere added in LuzerneCounty.

Most significantly, thefoundational role our industrialheritage plays has beenvalidated. In On August 8,2013, the D&L brought theSmithsonian-affiliated andAAM-accredited NationalCanal Museum under itsumbrella.

To chart the course forward,our Management Action PlanUpdate was also completed in2013. Information wasgathered and trendsassessed. Needs, strengths,weaknesses, challenges, andopportunities were examined.Through a public process thatinvolved surveys, workshopsand focus groups, strategicguidance was provided toconfirm our vision and missionand set goals. The plan ofaction for the next 5-10 yearswas the result of a thoroughanalysis of options forachieving goals and settingpriorities.

I trust you will join us as wework toward our crucial goalsto create lasting bonds byconnecting our geography,people and stories along theD&L Trail; assure a future forour invaluable heritage assetsthrough preservation andeducation; advance economicvitality through revitalizationactivity that results ineconomic impact; and createpositive visibility throughcelebrations.

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opening of the LehightonTrailhead in Carbon County. Thebalance of the year will be spentdesigning upcoming projects inCarbon, Lehigh, andNorthampton counties, with a focus on eliminating physical trailgaps in these areas.

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