Next we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington d. C. Where we will take a boat ride, to learn the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself, my name is chris andrea, and i am a seasonal park ranger heres. I think were going to, cast off here shortly, but we will go ahead and start and give you a brief history, about here on the canal, and its called the chesapeake and ohio canal, and it doesnt go all the way up to chesapeake bay, our the ohio river, which was the intention of the canal we started building it in basically july 4th, of 18 hundreds and 28. And the west was up in ohio, and pennsylvania at that time, and we wanted connect pittsburgh to the chesapeake bay. So what we did, was we started making this, canal and we tried earlier and it was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River to transport goods, and back then it would seem as a reasonable thing to do too he had a canal system built while using a system of locks but it did not
Or for a fee or if its ended, but at least as an association lets talk about goats. The moment you remember and the stories youve never heard. Now when im driving, if i might have to come up from l. A. Or some, but i often listen to the monday night game and i know you in the the current goat. I never thought id see him outside in new england and formed a nice bond. And i think brady wrote the forward for this. Certainly, you know, i always thought it was joe montana or jim brown, walter, sweetness, payton but just bradys track record. Add to move him up to the top of the a. P. As the goat in football, in my eyes, your thoughts on him as a guy. And as the goat well hes easer great guy, hes a terrific man and you know its been my good fortune and im honored that he would put his name on my book and do that. And what he expressed in there. This is really grateful for and you know, just really makes you feel, you know, im humbled by it and its a wonderful thing really, denton. And he is,
Success, any tears for them. And he doesnt think if somebody does something well, even in his sport, that it somehow diminishes him. And that is so rare. And so hard to find in this day and age as a football player, you also recognizes that its his teammates and that he needs a team that there are 10 other guys who are out there playing with them. And if anybody has a pulling their weight and belichick used to say, doing their job, then he can succeed and do his job. So he gets all of the accolades, he is the goat, hes won 6 titles. I dont see anybody, certainly in my lifetime, probably ever catching that number and to have played in that many super bowls. Its astonishing, but the good news is, is he is everything that you would want him to be if you get to know him. So if you have a mental image in your head of what it should be, he meets an exceeds well listen, if you can see him as a, the key to his happiness, his self contentment, and his ability to live a full rich life comes from