Here & There In Maryland: Field Trips; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; The Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore Art Museum; The National Aquarium in Baltimore; Sotterly; Deep Creek Lake

OK. Produced by the Division of instructional television Maryland State Dept. of Education in cooperation with the division of instruction. And. No no no no. No no no. No no you're wrong. I mean. 100 years ago barges like this one that Great Falls Maryland moved along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Crews often worked 16 hours a day except in winter when the CNO canal

was closed. Most of the boats were run by families. Canal Company managers preferred having a family man a skipper because they thought he would be more reliable. Sometimes after the man of the family died his wife would continue to operate the boat as skipper. Children help with the work too. Parents worried that young children might fall into the water so they would tie the younger ones down to the roof of the boat. For cooking. They had small wood or cold stores so simple dishes like stew were favorites. There'd always be a pot of hot coffee on the burner to help you. Will make it through the long nights of steering the boat or tending to a sick child or a lame you are. It was jokingly said that to save time and space the stew and the coffee were cooked together in the same pot.

But that was just a rumor. In the early 1900s business and government leaders realized a method was needed to get coal and farm products from western Maryland to the port of Georgetown in Washington D.C. but cargo ships could not go up the Potomac River beyond Georgetown because the river becomes very rocky and rough. They decided to build a come out beside the river from Georgetown to Cumberland. Canal construction began on July 4th 1828 at Little Falls Maryland near Georgetown. But something else very important was happening the same day in Baltimore. Construction was started on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It will be following most of the same route to Cumberland along the Potomac River. The people who built the canal ran into terrific problems land along the river it was hard to buy. Each lock was made of the kind of stone found in that area. They didn't have enough stone masons here so they brought them over from Europe. Irish German Welsh.

It was said that the ancestors of these stone masons learned Stone getting from the Romans and the craft was passed down through the years. These workers were promised good food a place to live and a roof over their heads and good pay. But when they got here they found conditions were not as promised. It would often be no place to live and sometimes they wouldn't receive their wages because the contractors who had hired them would take the money meant for the workers and leave town. Working on the canal was a rough life building supplies and food was scarce and expensive construction crews suffered from malaria and cholera. Sometimes there were outbreaks of violence in the construction camps. And how construction ended in Cumberland Maryland twenty two and a half years after it started. Originally it was planned to go all the way through the mountains to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. But the railroad offered too much competition for the canal because it was faster more reliable and less expensive for shippers. The canal closed down a 924 while it operated the sea and

made major contributions to our country during World War 1. Most of the coal used by the Navy in the Atlantic was carried by canal barges in the mountains of Cumberland down to the port of Georgetown at Washington. It also helps cities and towns along the route grow and develop. Today the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal belongs to all of us as a National Historical Park. A canal uses locks to raise and lower boats. After a boat enters the lock. The lower gate is closed.

Up or a locked gate is then opened and water enters raising the boat to the higher level. On the sea in Okinawa there were 74 of these locks between Georgetown and Cumberland. Like a series of giant steps up the mountains. As boats moved downstream from Cumberland to Georgetown. The process was reversed. Unlike the rocky shallow Potomac River the CNO canal was level and deep enough for barges. It was a tow path beside the canal so mules could pull the boats.

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It probably wasn't any harder than the life of other working people in the country at that time. They often work 12 hours a day in factories or farming. At least the canal people had their children around them all day as they traveled up and down the canal. In. One location by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting. Produced by the Division of instructional television Maryland State Department of Education

in cooperation with the division of instruction. Very well in court. When the hospital would build 200 beds. And there were doctors for that. Now. One of the things felt was important with no one would ever be turned away.

Or wanted to be sure that the hospital and the medical would work fine. When you walk through the halls of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with hardly a minute goes by when we don't hear come when called on the paid in full and doctors are north of there being paid people are even after you move their car that they're parked in the wrong place. Then provide them with a review of the hospital that so many different kinds of things are going along. Right. The hot little has grown a lot since it was founded. Now there are twenty one

department and there are over 1000 beds for paid and taking care of the patients are over 1000 doctor. The hospital need provide new service in order for the patient properly. There are almost ten thousand people who work at the John Hopkins Hospital. It's really a city within a city. We cooked meals for over a thousand people there. The power plant generator. They're the hospital long across from the hospital.

We have our own non-uniformed here and draperies and many other things. The hospital. There are several pharmacy the billable in the hospital for that medicine can be provided for the pain and. Oh. Hey. There are some that you might find even while shopping. In the basement of the hospital you have a paramedic.

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A whole series of tests are given when a young person of the committed to the Children's Center an X-ray and a blood test are used to help doctors find out what's wrong with the patient. After the test the young patient will go up to the floor where he or she will be thing. Oh. Unearth the patient and the parent for the assigned hospital room. They're the push button to called unearth when something special is perhaps in the middle of the night. Or even a place to keep toys. The patient may have a roommate. There are two

beds and most of the room. What really surprises some young people is that their mother or father can be overnight with them right in the same room. After a child is in the room and had a chance to look around there may be a chance to go to the play room. You know more about.

The great deal of research that goes on at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Teams of doctors and research work to find treatments and cures for diseases that have been around for a long time. There are many for the hospital it with here that rubber gloves were for you during surgery to prevent the spread of germs. The first operation to repair a damaged part with performed here a technique with developed and we find here that is used for people with stop breathing or hearts that stop beating. It's called CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Inside the Johns Hopkins Hospital you get a feeling that is very modern.

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See Stars alive and waiting for us to meet them in their watery world. It's just a few steps from the coast of South American rain forest. Here on the roof of the aquarium. You'll discover the many forms of life that all have one thing in common a dependence on water. In this dense growth there are lots of surprises waiting. Oh. From the roof of the aquarium we begin our

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And we're. Not going to. My name is Amy Schatz Browning I live here on the western edge of Maryland most of my life. Of course that was a little while ago. I was born in 1781. Died a few years before the Civil War. But I still like to keep my eye on my hunting grounds. Today it's called Carrick County. And right in the middle of it is the biggest lake in Maryland.

Deep Creek Lake is so big if you want to do walk all the way around the shore you'd have to walk over 60 miles. So you better pack a lunch. Families from all over come here to relax and enjoy themselves in and around the water. The. Summer and in Gary County It isn't a new idea you know. The Indians used to spend their summers hunting buffalo near Deep Creek. More than half of the county is still far east but the buffalo vanished many years ago. A few other things have changed too. I used to set up camp and occasionally get into arguments with bears. Right over there where those boats are now. That's right. At one time there was no Deep Creek Lake. But I'll bet my great great great

great great granddaughter. Tell you about that. Our family scrapbook We've got pictures and postcards from years and years ago in 1920. My great grandma had a farm where the lake is now she called that part of the county the Deep Creek claims. It was a valley with a stream running through it. This stream was supposed to be a great place to catch trout. In the 1920s. A power company decided to build a dam across deep creek to harness the force of the flowing water. They bought all the farms in the valley so they could flood it. The idea was to store the water in a lake so it could be sent to the power plant to generate electricity. That dam was built in 1924 and the power plant is still make you know electricity for customers up in Pennsylvania to the north.

My great grandma had to move in there built Deep Creek Lake. The granddaddy built a cabin on her land right next to the water. At first it was the only one. But when people started to travel out here in cars they built lots of cabinets. It's so green here in the summer and it's not hot like it is in the city. And there's all that water. I used to love to go explore in the woods. If you go exploring around Deep Creek bleak you'll find some pretty amazing things. Muddy Creek Falls for instance muddy creek and Deep Creek both empty into the jaga gay river. Valley Yucca Guinea River flows north from the bottom of Garrett County to the top. Up into Pennsylvania. Since the Indian name is hard to pronounce a lot of folks call. In the streams which feeded cut valleys in the mountains and that's where

most of the towns in Garrett County are never too far from water going downhill slowly on a big. Muddy Creek just upstream from the point where the creek empties into the ark again. At 51 feet high it's the highest waterfall in the state. The Swallow Falls is on the yacht. A short pipe from Muddy Creek. Well you can fish camp. And home. You know. Oakland is the biggest town. That's where I live. Every town has a voice. With a big parade. This kind of.

Music has been. My great grandma. In the old days people didn't visit Western Maryland in the winter. That's because we get so much snow now because of the snow. I love the winter. My family to go skiing great slopes for downhill cross-country. When I was a. Boy. We didn't have so many ways to have a good time on the snow and ice. We were glad to see it disappear. And even now the people who live on the high plateaus of Western Maryland. Welcome spring with open arms. The warm breezes

milf the ice and snow on the mountains and it comes cascading down to fill the rivers and creeks. My older brother loves to go canoeing. Actually. It's a canoe covered with a debt to keep out the water. He and his friends go crazy in the spring because there's lots of lake water for the canoes and kayaks. Gary county's famous for Whitewater. People from around the country even the world. Come to the Savage River. With championship races. My brother keeps telling me he's going to race. My brothers. I like to watch the world turn green. Everything looks the ferns the buds on the fuzzy chips some evergreen the little mountain wildflowers everything comes

back to life including the birds and the fish and the fish folks who live in the city. It's easy to forget how close they were connected to nature. Nobody. People have lived here for a long time and of course they've changed the land cleared dams and roads. Still a lot of water. And more. To preserve the things that make place trees and the free flowing waters. And if we remember to respect the natural beauty of Western Maryland we'll enjoy the changes.