Changing Course

Changing Course
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Michael and Robin Buyers from Toronto bike along easternmost stretch of trail on the Hennepin Canal near Bureau Junction on a Sunday afternoon in August. "We think this is a great facility," Michael Buyers says. The 104-mile Hennepin Canal, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, was designed to connect the Mississippi and Illinois riverways. Not long after its completion, however, the canal was made obsolete by the railways and closed in 1951, not to be restored and made into a park until 1970. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR