A National Park Canal Tour
Posted by DickH on 29 Jul 2008 at 08:23 pm | Tagged as: Lowell
Taking advantage of today’s beautiful weather, I signed up for a canal tour at the Lowell National Historical Park. It was a wonderful experience. If you haven’t taken such a tour recently, find a couple of hours during August and do it. Here’s what it was like today:
Thanks for the field trip! I haven’t done the canal tour in many years. The music was great, too.
Thanks for posting this! One of my kids is at the NHP Boott Mill camps this week(which is terrific, BTW) and coincidentally went on the canal tour yesterday too! It was great to sit down with her last evening and have the opportunity to see what she saw. Although she thought the music was a little goofy. Must be a generational thing
Not enough attention is being paid to the Mill and Canal Tour. This was the original “bread and butter” of the National Park along with the old Lowell Museum at Wannalancit. The Northern Canal gatehouse is an incredible work of engineering and should be open to the public with a little refreshment stand (halfway through a relaxing stroll over the walkway). I wish someone at the NPS would look back to the early days of the park and go back to Mogan’s original vision.
I took my grandparents and parents on the canal tour, after enjoying my first one. Wicked fun, especially as my grandfather worked in the (Manchester) mills when he was a teen. (We also went to the Boott.)
I have been meaning to get back to doing another of these, now that I have the digiSLR. I think I could get some fabulous and unique shots of Lowell from the canal and river.
(Now I have no excuse, as I’m every day sitting within stone’s throw of the Visitors Center. heh.)
HI Dick,
We have teachers here in Lowell at the Tsongas Industrial History Center this week from all over the country for a workshop. They took the boat tour the other day. Do you mind if we share a link of your video with them so they can go home and show their students what they did?
Thanks!
Ellen A.
Thanks for the tour. I haven’t done the tour in about six years when I had visitors from D.C. staying with me. A lot has changed.
BTW Dick, are you on vacation, or did you just blow off working on Tuesday? Just curious.
Dennis - Between gas prices, a new puppy and a son heading off to college next month, vacationing in Lowell this summer seemed like a good choice.