Title: Knowledgeable author makes all the difference
Product review: Arcadia Publishing deserves credit for making local histories available, but many of their books are nothing more than a collection of photos accompanied by short, sometimes repetitive, and often useless captions. This book is written by an author well schooled in his subject and it shows in a two-page Introduction (apparently Arcadia does allow text!) and in the informative and intelligent captions to the photos that are arranged in geographical order. There's even a small but readable map. This book is an informative look at the Morris Canal that will give you a good overview of where it went, how it worked (the planes that lifted the boats are nicely described and illustrated)and how it looked.
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