2014 Dinner & Conversation on the Canal

Passengers will be immersed into the life of the old Lehigh Canal through the stories and songs of Rich Pawling, one of the country?s preeminent canal interpreters and owner of History Alive!, an education company that stresses learning history by living history. Pawling and D&L archivist, Martha Capwell-Fox, will team to provide an unabridged look at Lehigh Canal life in the mid-1800s, with plenty of anecdotal sidelights. One of the evening?s highlights is a trip inside Lock 47 at Abbott Street in Easton, where the Josiah White II will be lowered and raised the same way coal-laden canal boats were nearly 200 years ago. Lock 47 is one of only a few working canal locks in Pennsylvania.Ed Petrocelli, chef and owner of Food with Style, will offer picnic cuisine aboard the boat based on 19th-century recipes.