Ohio and Erie Canal by Boone Triplett pottery A Wall Street Journal Best

A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year

or a thru hike from Georgia to Maine

This book is part of The First-Time Gardener’s Guides series from Cool Springs Press

And I believe the world needs more guides like her who are showing us a wiser way to our inner world

Now she tells us what we actually can do about it

Ohio and Erie Canal by Boone Triplett pottery A Wall Street Journal BestGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired by the Erie Canal in New York, the State of Ohio began surveying routes in 1822 for its own grand internal improvement project. Completed a decade later, the 309 mile long Ohio and Erie Canal connected Cleveland, Akron, Massillon, Dover, Roscoe, Newark, Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe, Waverly, and Portsmouth.