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Delaware Canal Festival in Bristol – June 25

Delaware Canal Festival in Yardley – June 25

 

The Friends gratefully thank

• The Faces and Places committee members, who are indeed multi-talented
• Our guest tour guides and event volunteers
• Those who generously shared their stories and opened their properties along the tour route
• Our sponsors and patrons
• All the businesses and individuals who contributed items and services for Strokes of Luck and the "strolling" auction.
• The Bucks County Trolley Company and Max Hansen Catering for providing the best of service and hospitality
• The "couldn't have been better" autumn weather
• All those who attended Faces and Places and supported the Friends' efforts

Our Sponsors
Our Supporters C. E. Conover & Co. Continental Airlines Dontech Melissa Dupuis Fine Gardening Fabric Goddess of Bucks County Fulton Bank Kathryn Hausman Linda Kenyon Brian Keyes, Esq. Eleanor Miller Chuck and Pearl Mintzer Nottingham Insurance Bill O'Donnell Design Consulting, LLC OwowCow Creamery River Road Business Alliance Towers & Miller Architects Vista Dos Mares Walter's Nursery David J. Witchell   Our Strokes of Luck Contributors 1821 Steaks and Cocktails AKA Salon Baked on Main Brigadoon Coffee House Bristol Riverside Theatre Bucks County Images Bucks County Historical Society Bucks County River Country Canal House Cargill Custom Costumes Chubby's Dairy Bar Cornerstone Fitness County Theater - Doylestown Concordia Chamber Players Dorsey Reading Duck Soup Embraceable You Fabric Goddess of Bucks County Ferndale Inn Four Seasons Car Wash Frenchtown Inn Gloria Kosco Pottery Hellerick's Family Farm Homestead Coffee Roasters Hotel du Village Jamie Hollander J. Scones Jules Pizza Kimberton Whole Foods Lambertville House Lambertville Station Landolfi's Deli Lilies of the Field The Living Earth Logan inn Lovin' Oven Lucky Cupcake Marsha Brown Restaurant McCarter Theatre Center Melissa Dupuis Fine Gardening James A. Michener Art Museum - Doylestown Veronica Morton New Hope Ghost Tours by Adele Gamble New Hope Historical Society New Hope & Ivyland Railroad Painted Truffle Pearl Buck International Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Philadelphia Peonies from Heaven Point Pleasant General Store The Raven Riverside Symphonia Mr. and Mrs. Rose Illustration and Graphic Design Sand Castle Winery - Erwinna Sartoria Custom Clothier Sellersville Museum Sellersville Theater Two Buttons West Hunterdon Lanes What's Brewin' at Maria's Whole Foods

 

A great time was had by all at the Feasting with Friends dinners during the month of July. Scenes from the Grand Re-Opening of the Delaware Canal at the Forks of the Delaware Recreation Area Easton, PA Friday, July 23, 2010 Delaware Canal Clean-Up Day - April 17th Hundreds of volunteers turned out to give the Canal its annual spring cleaning. The volunteers from Traditions in Washington Crossing covered a 3.3 mile stretch. This crew worked on the stretch from Phillips' Mill to Rabbit Run Bridge in New Hope. Smithtown crew gathers before heading out for clean-up from Tinicum Aqueduct south to Bridge Two. The boys, trash-picking tool in hand, snag some bottles from the reeds south of Bridge 2 in Point Pleasant while the rest of the crew check out the process and are ready with a trash bag. In search of trash on the towpath approaching the Levittown Center. A Triumph over Trash. The Morrisville crew at work on the water and on the towpath.

 

Scenes from Faces and Places

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Canal Clean-Up Day - April 25

Young Earthcare kids at work in Morrisville.

Lunch and Walk - March 28, 2009

Wy-Hit-Tuk Park to Sette Luna in downtown Easton and back.
Photos by Veronica Morton

The Canal, newly repaired, awaits walkers.

Taking in the sights and marveling at the work.

Where the Delaware Canal begins in Easton. From left to right, the bypass, the guard lock, and the weigh lock.

The youngest of the walkers.

At the Forks of the Delaware, where the Lehigh River meets the Delaware River.  The dam was built to feed water into the Delaware Canal.

The fish ladder in Easton - ready for water and shad that want to reach their spawning ground on the Lehigh River.

Arriving for lunch at Sette Luna on Ferry Street.

Full, smiling, and ready for the walk back to Wy-Hit-Tuk Park.  

Scenes from the Friends' Annual Meeting and Covered

Dish Dinner - November 11, 2008

Photos by Veronica Morton

 

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Canal Walk 2008

photos by Veronica Morton

On October 4th, Betty Orlemann, founder of the Friends of the Delaware Canal, pointed this year's walkers in the right direction.

The Michael Uhler house and store in Uhlerstown, reputed to be the best preserved canal hamlet in America.

Board President Tom Williams gave a tour of the old Uhlerstown post office and store.

Learning about the Canal along the way.

Trekking through Erwinna.

Lunch in Smithtown.

Destination reached - Point Pleasant.

 

Program - "Promoting the Preservation of the Delaware Canal - 1930's Style

photo by Veronica Morton

On September 9th, 165 people assembled at the David Library of the American Revolution for the Friends' program "Promoting the Preservation of the Delaware Canal - 1930's Style." The capacity + crowd was entranced by the two black and white, silent films shown by Lance Metz, Historian at the National Canal Museum in Easton.

 

photo by Veronica Morton

Lance Metz shared a bit of his encyclopedic knowledge about the Delaware Canal while making sure that the rare films made it safely through the 16 mm projector.

 

photo by Veronica Morton

Marie Murphy Duess was on hand to sign her new book, The Delaware Canal - From Stone Coal Highway to Historic Landmark.

 

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