Our speakers’ presentations are available in PDF format below.
Speaker presentations
WCC 2022 Leipzig
The World Canals Conference 2022
-Ulrich Hörning
City of Leipzig, Deputy Mayor of General Services
History and Context
Albert Gallatin, Father of American Infrastructure
-Rod Mackler
Hall’s Rifle Works and the Shenandoah Canal:
A Fraught Relationship in the Age of Waterpower
-David Gilbert
Inland Waterways and Engineering Change
“Wreck”-reation or Rē-Creation ?
A Comparative Tale of Two Michigan Inland Lake Communities
-Stacy Leroy Daniels
Recent Engineering & Construction along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
-Joseph Reed
Trails to Recreation and Education
Trailway through Time: The D&L and National Canal Museum Merge History and Recreation
-Martha Capwell Fox and Daphne Mayer
Canal Classrooms Education Program
-Hollie Lynch
Technology and Education
The Delaware and Hudson Canal-An Underappreciated American Treasure
-Cliff Robinson, Jr.
Visit the D&H Canal Historical Society YouTube channel.
Civilian Conservation Corps on the C&O Canal
-Joshua Trott
History and Context II
C&O Canal Company’s 1890 Bankruptcy Case that Established a 50-Year Trusteeship
-Karen Gray
The State of Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Initiative
-Robert Kapsch
Maryland Tourism Initiatives
Maximizing Maryland’s Tourism Opportunities of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
-Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, Dan Spedden and Abbie Ricketts
Canal Place, Past and Present
-Deidre Ritchie
Technology and Tourism
The Unique Tourism-Focused Initiatives of the C&O Canal Trust
-Aidan Barnes

Pandemic Programming and Volunteers
Keeping the Doors Open for History: Interpretation & Adaptation during COVID-19
-Daniel Wiles
Building Capacity Through Volunteer Partnerships
-Emily Hewitt
Near and Far:
Local Material Culture and German Reforms
More than Whiskey and Flour:
Shopping in an 1850s Canal Town
-Blyth McManus
Four Great Reformes in 500 Years
-Elke Witt
Trails to Creative Programing
The World is Your Museum:
Programming Outside the Bounds of Your Historic Site
-David Brooks and Derrick Pratt
Visit the Erie Canal Museum YouTube channel
Four Pillars of the GAP and Canal Towpath Trails:
History, Scenery, Quality, and Variety
-Doug Riegner
Conservation and the Natural Enviroment
The Capital’s Corridor:
From Purveyor of Goods to Conservation Corridor
-Joel Cohen
Go with the Flow video
“Champion” Canals: Coming by it naturally!
-Ralph Buglass
Tourism and the Small Town
The C&O Canal as the Focus for History and Tourism in a small Western Maryland Town
-Ralph Salvagno and Tracy Salvagno
The Canal Towns Partnership:
Ten Towns, Six Counties, Two States
-Abbie Ricketts
The Impact of Climate Change on Inland Waterways
PIANC and its Role Addressing Climate Change Challenges to Inland Waterways (panel discussion)
-by William Miles, Brian Joyner and Burton Suedel