Canal Symposium at Lafayette College
Presentations on The Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike, The Shenandoah Navigation System, and the Canal Era Glass Industry
One-Day Event Includes Copy of Printed Proceedings

 

The 29th annual Canal History and Technology Symposium will be held at the William E. Simon Center for Economics and Business Administration at Lafayette College on Saturday, March 13, 2010.  Sponsored by the National Canal Museum and Lafayette College, this event features the presentation of research papers on topics of transportation and industrial history.

 

Topics this year include:  mechanical iron ore unloading machines, the voyages of the Day Peckinpaugh, canal era glass industry in Bucks County, the entrepreneurial career of Jose’ De Navarro, the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike, the Shenandoah Navigation System, the Albion Quarry, and the labor management and dual union movements in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Indusry..

 

Symposium presenters include:  Emory and Janet Kemp, West Virginia University; Robert Kapsch, former director of the Historic American Building Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record; Prof. Robert Wolensky, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point; Thomas Grasso, President of the Canal Society of New York State; David Long, Princeton University; Robert Kapsch, National Park Service; Mike Piersa, National Museum of Industrial History; and Martha Capwell-Fox, local Historian.   The complete text of the selected papers is published in the Canal History and Technology Proceedings, which is part of the registration package. 

 

Registration for the symposium, which includes continental breakfast, buffet lunch, and a copy of the Proceedings, is $70 ($60 for members of Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums).  All registrations received after February 26th will incur a $5 late fee.  Registrations will be accepted until March 5th.  Individual copies of the Proceedings can be purchased after the symposium for $25.00 (plus tax and shipping).

 

Registration forms will be mailed in January.  If you would like to receive a registration form, please contact the National Canal Museum at 610-559-6616 or e-mail at membership@canals.org.