2011 SPRING FIELD TRIP
APRIL 29, 30, & MAY 1, 2011
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TOURING THE LOWER DIVISION OF
LEHIGH NAVIGATION
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THE HAMPTON INN AT LEHIGHTON, PA
Rt 209, Lehighton, PA, ¼ mile north of PA Turnpike Exit 74
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Friday, April 29: / 4:00 - 6:00 pm / Registration - the lobby of the Hampton Inn7:30 pm / Welcome & Orientation Program
Presentation by Dennis Scholl, Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Outreach Coordinator
Slide show by Gordon Perry & Bill Lampert
Saturday, April 30: / 7:00 - 7:50 am / Late/ Final Registration
Continental Breakfast available in hotel lobby
8:00 am sharp / Board coach for an excursion visiting locks, dams, structures & related industries
12:00 pm / Lunch at the Terrace Restaurant, Walnutport, Pa
5:00 pm / Return to the Hampton Inn
6:00 pm / Pre-dinner gathering
7:00 pm / Family Style Buffet Dinner at the Inn at Jim Thorpe
8:00 pm / Annual PCS Meeting
9:00pm / John Miller Lehigh Canal Presentation
Movie: The Bridge that Spanned the World describing the connection between the Severn River Valley where the Industrial Revolution began, and the Lehigh Valley
Sunday, May 1: / 10:00am – 12pm / PCS Board of Directors Meeting. PCS members are
invited to attend.
12pm - ? / Optional tour: Historic Catasauqua Preservation Association will lead a walking tour including- Silk Mills, Crane Iron Works; Puddlers Row
Please contact the Hampton Inn @ 610-377-3400 to reserve your room. Please mention the PA Canal Society to obtain a special rate of $89 (+ tax), for either single king or double queen; deluxe continental breakfast included. Pool, fitness center & high-speed internet on premises.
Program
On Friday evening, Dennis Scholl, Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Outreach Coordinator, will offer a presentation on the Delaware & Lehigh trail system, and the good work the Lehigh Trail Tenders volunteer organization is doing to maintain Lehigh Navigation towpath. Following will be an orientation slide show presented by Gordon Perry and Bill Lampert of period photographs and historical photographs from the collection of long-time member and researcher Wooter deNee.
On Saturday, we will board the coach for a trip to visit lock ruins, dam ruins and points of historical interest along the Lower Division of Lehigh Navigation. We will start at the north end, and move down-canal to visit the Locktender’s Museum at Walnutport, followed by lunch at the Terrace Restaurant. We will see historic silk mills at Catasauqua and cement kilns at Northampton. We will finish our tour at the mule barn/grist mill/ locktender’s house complex in Freemansburg, and enjoy a presentation by amateur archeologists excavating the mill site.
Charlie Derr will be on hand to guide us around the site, where the classic movie, A Farmer Takes a Wife, was filmed.
Some other sites we will be viewing on Saturday include:
· Rickert’s Coal Yard in Weissport
· Intact cold cellars at locktender houses
· Mauser Mill in Triechlers & Laurys
· Biery’s Port, Deily Coal Yard, & Silk Mills of Catasauqua
· Cement kilns of Northampton; Source of cement for Panama Canal
· The only Ice House where canal ice was floated into the warehouse for storage
· Boat # 249, the only genuine Lehigh Coal &Navigation boat extent
· Lock, Dam, Mill & Locktender House ruins
After returning to the hotel in the evening, we will carpool to the historic Inn at Jim Thorpe to enjoy a sumptuous buffet dinner, followed by the Annual PCS Meeting and an Evening Presentation by long-time member John Miller. Back at the hotel, the night owls among us will view The Bridge that Spanned the World, a movie depicting the industrial revolution in the Severn River Valley in England, and its spread to the Lehigh Valley.
Pennsylvania Canal Society
Spring Field Trip
April 29, 30 & May 1, 2011
Please complete the form below and send on or before April 20 to:
Bill Lampert, 432 Quarry Rd, Ottsville, PA 18942 (Phone: 215-262-5506; Fax: 610-847-8427)
Please register early so we may have enough transportation available to accommodate everyone.
Don’t delay, this one will fill up quickly!
No refunds after April 20, 2011
Name______Telephone______
Address______
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Name(s) for name tag(s) ______
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Full Event Package (including Friday Evening Presentation, Saturday Excursion, Lunch, Saturday Evening Banquet and Saturday Evening Presentation):
_____ PCS Member…………………………………………………...$ 84.00 per person
_____ Non-PCS Member or Member registration after April 15……..$ 89.00 per person
Friday Evening Presentation and Saturday Excursion only:
_____ PCS Member…………………………………………………...$ 59.00 per person
_____ Non-PCS Member or Member registration after April 15…..…$ 64.00 per person
Saturday Evening Banquet and Saturday Evening Presentation only:
_____ PCS Member or Non-PCs……………………………………...$ 30.00 per person
Sunday Afternoon walking tour of Catasauqua:
_____ Walkers……..………………………………………………….$ per person
Release: Each participant must sign
The undersigned hereby releases the Pennsylvania Canal Society, its officers and agents, including third parties who furnish transportation or provide access to their land for historical sightseeing, including but not limited to The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from any and all claims, whether of personal injury or property damage, arising out of or connected in any way with the tours sponsored by the Society on April 29, 30, & May 1, 2011. This release is freely executed on behalf of the undersigned and the following minors over whom he or she has guardianship.
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