BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Georgetown -- C&O Canal NHP

DC -- Georgetown -- C&O Canal NHP:

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1. GTOWNC_200830_30.JPG: ... a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capitol's back door... a wilderness area where we can commune with God and with nature ... a place for boys and girls, men and women... Hike 15 or 20 miles on a Sunday afternoon... Sleep on high dry ground in the quiet of a forest... Sit with no sound except water lapping at one's feet... ... Come with me... Walk the 185 miles to Cumberland... Get to know muskrats, fox; ... Hear the roar of wind in thickets; ... See strange islands and promontories through the fantasy of fog; ... Discover the glory there is in the first flower of spring... Even in a blade of grass; the whistling wings of ducks... William O. Douglas, January 19, 1954 to the Washington Post Placed by the C & O Canal Association May 1971
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Description of Subject Matter: This is the Georgetown segment of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Begun in 1828 just inside DC, its 185-mile length extended up past Harper's Ferry before reaching its terminus here in Georgetown in 1840. This included 74 locks. Moving at just four miles an hour, the canals were a main method of transportation for goods until the railroads wiped them out.

The Canal was almost paved over in the 1950's to make way for the Whitehurst Freeway. Supreme Court justice William Douglas led a successful campaign which preserved the Canal and the freeway was built on an overpass instead.

The Canal became a popular walking and biking route. In October 1964, Mary Meyer was shot to death while walking here. She had been known to be having an affair with President John Kennedy from 1961 until his death in November 1963. She had told friends including Ben Bradlee, the publisher of the Washington Post, about it but, of course, in those days you didn't print those things. She had a diary which disappeared afterward.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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