Summer Evening Stroll: The Golden Link

 

Cathy Wegener

Robert Hopkins

 

  Nature and structure were predominant themes of  Wednesday’s Interpretive Series: Summer Evening Stroll along the Tulpehocken creek near Reading, Pennsylvania. Cathy Wegener, Superintendent of Interpretive Services and Robert Hopkins, West Nile Coordinator for Berks County Conservation District, led the event at Gring’s Mill.

   Wegener handled the structure side with well-chiseled facts: the 79.5 mile Union Canal was called the Golden Link,  joining Philadelphia to Middletown.  Boats 1/3 the width of river boats transported people, goods and produce. Canal’s demise partly due to construction flaws: “It leaked!”  Did you know: canals were built with clay bottoms and a kind of submerged wood floor?

   Hopkins is a man so comfortable in nature he can hold purple loose strife in his hand and live to tell us about it.  He also touched on subjects such as wild bergamot, colony collapse disorder and rhus juice.

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