October 2, 2011
Veterinarian Runs Grass-Roots Drive to Raise Millions for a Historic Bridge
Lawrence Biemiller, for The Chronicle
Friends told George Lewis his fund-raising drive would compete with more urgent needs, like “a little old lady on a corner with a tin cup.”
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Lawrence Biemiller, for The Chronicle
Friends told George Lewis his fund-raising drive would compete with more urgent needs, like “a little old lady on a corner with a tin cup.”
Lander, Md.
His friends told George Lewis he was crazy when he said he wanted to raise $2.3-million to rebuild a collapsed stone aqueduct in the C&O Canal National Historical Park, which meanders along the Maryland side of the Potomac River from Cumberland, Md., down to Washington.
“Who ever heard of the C&O Canal?” they asked. “Who even knows what an aqueduct is?”
Besides, they warned, to raise money nowadays, “you gotta compete with a little old
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