Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from Waterway to Canalway

Contributors

Contributors Chuck Ayers, B.F.A., is a cartoonist and illustrator and cocreator of the comic strip Crankshaft. He is also the illustrator of Joe’s Place: Conversations on the Cuyahoga Valley and Along the Towpath and volunteer illustrator for the Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition. Peg Bobel, M.S.S.A., is the former executive director of the Cuyahoga Valley Association and a freelance writer. She has edited with her husband, Rob Bobel , the Towpath Companion and has written several other books relating to the Cuyahoga Valley. Robert Bobel, B.S., P.E., is park engineer at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where he is responsible for canal operations and serves as chief engineer for the Valley Railway. He was project manager for the book Towpath Companion: A Traveler’s Guide to the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. Robert Downing, journalist, Akron Beacon Journal, is author of numerous columns about the region and the Ohio & Erie Canal. Kathy Fernandez, B.A., is the former site manager of Zoar Village State Memorial . She served as a trustee of the Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition from its founding until 2009 and currently serves as trustee of the Ohio & Erie Canal Association. Jack Gieck, P.E., is a retired engineer, photographer, and author of several books, including A Photo Album of Ohio’s Canal Era, 1825–1913. Roger Grant, Ph.D., history, Clemson University (formerly at the University of Akron), is author of twenty books, twelve of which are on transportation, including Ohio on the Move: Transportation in the Buckeye State. Joseph Hannibal, Ph.D., curator of invertebrate paleontology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is author of Geology along the Towpath: Stones of the Ohio & Erie and Miami & Erie Canals. Glenn Harper, M.A., manager, certiWed local government program, Historic Preservation OYce of the Ohio Historical Society, is a contributor to several works of Ohio history and is an expert on the National Road. 375 376฀ contributors George Knepper, Ph.D., history, professor emeritus, University of Akron, is author of Ohio and Its People and other books on Ohio’s history. Lynn Metzger, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Akron. She coordinated the editing and publishing of Along the Towpath and is a volunteer on several Canalway projects. She is the coordinator of this book project. Russ Musarra, a career journalist, is retired from the Akron Beacon Journal. He is author of Greetings from Akron and editor of Along the Towpath and Joe’s Place: Conversations on the Cuyahoga Valley. Dan Rice, M.A., is president and CEO of the Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition . Rory Robinson, B.S., is a recreation planner with the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program. Richard Sicha, M.A., is a planner with the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission . Sam Tamburro, M.A., is the historian for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Park and former historian for Cuyahoga Valley National Park. He is the coeditor of The Cuyahoga Valley, a pictorial essay. ...