Judith Welles, a local history author and C&O Canal volunteer, provides historic highlights and photographs of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, including the canal’s role in the Civil War, historic structures, and unique engineering marvels in the mid-19th Century.  The presentation also describes current-day challenges facing the C&O Canal National Historical Park.

Free and open to the public, this event will take place in Room A at the Germantown Library.