Canal Festival

Posted 8/21/12

HAWLEY, PA — The Wayne County Historical Society will celebrate its third annual Canal Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 22 at Lock 31, D&H Canal Park, on Route 6, 1 mile west of …

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HAWLEY, PA — The Wayne County Historical Society will celebrate its third annual Canal Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 22 at Lock 31, D&H Canal Park, on Route 6, 1 mile west of The Settlers Inn, Hawley, PA.

This free event will feature live traditional music; blacksmith, timber frame construction, wood carving, spinning, weaving and quilting demonstrations; a Civil War encampment; guided walking tours; carriage rides on the towpath; children’s activities including a petting zoo; commercial vendors; and not-for-profit informational booths. Food, including home baked goods, will be available for purchase, along with local history-related items in the Canal Store. New this year are an archeology “dig” by PA Archaeology Society member, Theodore Baird; a glass-cutting demonstration by Kathy LaTourous; and an authors’ tent.

Four authors will be in the authors’ tent signing and selling their books. Michael P. Gadomski (www.mpgadomski.com), a retired Pennsylvania state park ranger and naturalist, will be there with his “Reserves of Strength, Pennsylvania’s Natural Landscape,” a coffee-table book of color photographs. Natalie S. Harnett is the author of the coming of age novel, “The Hollow Ground,” set in Centralia and Carbondale, PA, with its coal mine fire, which made the sidewalks too hot for dogs to walk on (www.natalieharnett.com).

S. Robert Powell, long-time president of the Carbondale Historical Society, will be there with the first five volumes of a 24-volume history of the D&H Canal Company on archival DVDs. Cliff Robinson Jr. is the author of the fictional mystery “Coalboat.”

A video of the 1st Canal Festival and grand opening of the park in 2013 can be seen at the website; click on “Canal Park.”

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