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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is looking for new volunteers to serve as Canal Classroom Corps members and provide educational information to students from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. this spring and summer.

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A Leafier Kind of Classroom in Potomac’s Backyard

Retired teachers taking their classroom skills to the great outdoors to introduce children to the C&O Canal.

An estimated one million children attend school along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which stretches from Washington, D.C. through Virginia and Maryland and out to Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Through the C&O Canal National Historic Park, children have the opportunity to spend hours out in nature learning the importance of the canal to the nation's capital and surrounding region.

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