<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Happy Birthday Manayunk Canal! We are two weeks out from the celebration.</div><div>Please share this email with your organizations and friends. (Apologies for duplicates.)</div><div>We are also preparing small posters to hang in Main Street businesses.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>FAIRMOUNT WATER WORKS PRESENTS:</b></div><div><b>2019 Manayunk Canal Bicentennial Events at Venice Island, Manayunk</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Wednesday March 13, 6 PM at VI-PARC, Bicentennial Forum</b>, <i>200 Years of Water: The Manayunk Canal 1819-2019</i></div><div>Speakers from the Philadelphia Water Department, Fairmount Water Works, and Manayunk</div><div>Bicentennial Citation from Harrisburg, from Pam Delisso's office</div><div>Attendees receive a 12-page commemorative booklet, <i>Fairmount and the Manayunk Canal 1819-2019: Two Hundred Years of Confluence</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><b>Wednesday March 13 7:45 PM</b> - Informal celebrating, <b>Happy Hour prices at</b> Manayunk Brewing Company (show your booklet to get the discount)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Saturday March 16, 10 AM, Lock-to-Lock 5K Fun Run with the Manayunk Beer Runners.</b></div><div><b>Saturday March 16, 9:15 AM and 11:15 AM, Insider Tours</b> by FWW guides of Lock 69/70 and the canal area (20 minutes) </div><div>For either activity, meet at Venice Island in front of the Pumping Station, near Lock Street Bridge </div><div><br></div><div><b>2019 Bicentennial Events at the Fairmount Water Works:</b></div><div>March 17-June 9 - <b>EXHIBIT:</b> <b>Fairmount and the Manayunk Canal, 1919-2019: Two Hundred Years of Confluence</b> – includes hand-painted maps done in 1827 by Schuylkill Navigation Company engineer T.H. Gill, and historic photographs of the Fairmount and Manayunk Canals </div><div>May 2, 2019 - <b>Abandoned Inland Canals</b> <b>Video Presentation </b>and reception</div><div>May 4, 2019 - <b>Insider Tour</b> at Low Tide to look at the exposed stonework ruins of the Fairmount Canal</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>