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New Castle County Reads 2013 has chosen March <\/i>by Geraldine Brooks as its feature book this year.\u00a0 The fascinating novel takes places during the dark years of the Civil War, as the north reels under a series of unexpected defeats and a father, Mr. March, goes off to aid the Union cause.\u00a0 The New Castle County Library System is hosting a series of related programs to support the book discussion groups so I have been asked to do C&D Canal talk, which focuses on those troubling years.<\/p>\n

There are many primary sources to help support a discussion such as this.\u00a0 One, which I have found to be particularly insightful, is the diary of a C & D Canal official.\u00a0 During those unsettled times, the officer overseeing the waterway across the peninsula kept a daily journal <\/a>of happenings on the Peninsula.\u00a0 The C&D Canal talk takes place on Wednesday evening, March 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the New Castle Library<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a Delaware Humanities Forum<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

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In the vicinity of the pump-house, men were examining the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in 1867.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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