This is terrible!  I assume that they are more or less the same design as
were on the James River Kanawha Canal, and would be extremely valuable at
some canal museum in Richmond.  Is their one?  I do recall that a section of
the canal goes by the Tredegar Iron Works, so maybe that would be the place
for them.

How about a grass-roots program to save at least one?  There is an annual
bataux festival from Lynchburg to Richmond, so maybe somebody in that group
would like to 'trade up' to canal boat, at least as a stop along the way for
food and drink.

Please forward the article you mentioned.

Randy Cabell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lonny J. Watro" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: More Canal Boats in Cumberland, MD


> More canal boats were found in Cumberland, MD, in the re-watering of the C
& O Canal Project. The boats will be destroyed by our Federal tax dollars
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers! I don't understand why they say it's
not "cost effective" to save the boats. Hey, this is our money they are
using. Don't we have a say?
>
> Anyway, I have the Cumberland Times News story if anyone wants a scanned
copy, let me know.
>
> Also, if anyone wants to put in their two cents worth in to Cumberland,
let me know that too. I'd be happy to compose a letter to the editor from
concerned Federal tax paying citizens.
>
> Lonny J. Watro
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