I first wrote The Race in  2003 as a promotion that CanalPlace in Cumberland gave away as part of CanalFest that year. It was fun to jump my Canawlers series ahead a decade and write a story featuring Tony and Thomas.  With this new release of The Race (which has been out of print for two years),  I was also able to go back through the story and fix some mistakes and add a little bit more to it. The Race is set in 1872 in Shanty Town, the rowdy, waterfront area of Cumberland, Maryland. In a drunken celebration of his 20th birthday, canaller Tony Fitzgerald made a stupid boast and an even stupider bet. He will race his canal boat against a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train for three miles along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal where it parallels Read more…