I have twice been told an anecdote about how Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt doesn't know what poison ivy looks like, and I have feigned laughter both times. I have eaten sea bass. As far as I can tell, there is nothing left to experience. Over the past eight days, I have been engulfed in something called the Canal Adventure 2000. Activities and objects are valuable only for their ability to humanize culture.
Nothing is more valuable than the collision of ideas.
It was important. It's more or less a semi-famous ditch. It has no intrinsic value. But it does have extrinsic value. These folks want to see it become part of the living history of Ohio.