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Adirondack Reservoirs: Water for the Erie Canal

February 20, 2020 educational program, Erie Canal Museum, history, Lecture, New York State history, Presentation, public program

Raymond Letterman, Ph.D. will discuss the impact of dams and reservoirs that were constructed in the western Adirondacks to supply water to the Erie Canal at the Erie Canal Museum's first lunchtime lecture of the year, Thursday, February 20 at 12 p.m. The presentation will take place in the second-floor Weighlock Gallery of the Museum, 318 Read More »

The Weighlock Building: No Place Like Home

Ways of the Weighmaster Lunchtime Lecture

October 25, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, Event, history, Lecture, Museum Initiatives, New York State history

In the 19th century, New York's canals included weighlocks--locks in which barges were weighed to assess a toll--in a number of communities, including Syracuse. The person responsible for weighing barges and collecting tolls was the weighmaster. Weighmasters were employed by New York State from the Canal's earliest days until the mid-1880s. when tolls ended. Historian Read More »

19th Century New York Travels and Foodways

19th Century New York Travel and Foodways

October 22, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal Museum, history, Lecture, Presentation, public program

The 1826 travel journal of Alexander Stewart Scott and the Erie Canal's influence on American food are the topics of a special program at the Erie Canal Museum on Tuesday, October 22 from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. Independent Historian Paul G. Schneider, Jr., will discuss the journal kept by Scott, a young Canadian who wrote vivid Read More »

TR & His Canals, a Free Curator Talk

October 16, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, Free program, history, Lecture, New York State history, Presentation

During this free presentation at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, New York, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Ashley Maready will discuss the important role that former United States President Theodore Roosevelt played in the development of early 20th century canals. This program is scheduled for Wednesday, October 16 from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. Roosevelt was Read More »

Water Quality in the Erie Canal

September 19, 2019 Erie Canal Museum, Event, Lecture, Museum Initiatives, Museum news, Presentation, public program

The quality and condition of water in the Erie Canal historically and today is the topic of September's Peggy Lou Feldmeier Lunchtime Lecture at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Mark Teece, professor of environmental chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, will present the lecture, which is scheduled for 12 Read More »

New York’s Queen City: A History of Buffalo

August 1, 2019 Erie Canal, Event, Free program, history, Lecture, Presentation, public program

The history of Buffalo, New York's second-largest city, is the topic of a free curator talk taking place at the Erie Canal Museum on Thursday, August 1 at 12 p.m. Museum Curator Ashley Maready will unpack the history of Buffalo, discussing how and why it became the western terminus of the Erie Canal, how it grew into Read More »

Lecture: Onondaga Lake Biological Recovery

Lecture: Biological Recovery in Onondaga Lake

July 1, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal Museum, Event, Lecture, Museum Initiatives, Museum news, Presentation, public program

Work to recover species that once thrived in Onondaga Lake, the body of water on which Syracuse, New York, was built, is the topic of a talk by Dr. Neil H. Ringler scheduled for 12 p.m. Monday, July 1 at the Erie Canal Museum. Onondaga Lake: Biological Recovery and Our Evolving Science Center is part of Read More »

Kids on the Canal Curator Talk

June 14, 2019 Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, Event, Free program, Lecture, Museum news, Presentation, public program

What kind of lives did kids growing up on the Erie Canal lead? Many families owned canal boats and made their living on the Erie Canal. Everyone in the family had a job to do, including the children. Other children who were involved with the Canal in some way were orphans or had been abandoned. Read More »

Schoharie Crossing: A Canal Tour Like Never Before

May 9, 2019 Erie Canal, Event, history, Lecture, Museum news, public program

Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter, New York, interprets and preserves the history of the Erie Canal and its contributions to New York and the nation. It is home to the National Historic Landmark Enlarged Erie Canal Schoharie Aqueduct, whose significance recently landed it on the Preservation League of New York State's "Seven to Read More »

DeWitt Clinton’s 250th Birthday Anniversary

March 2, 2019 history, Lecture, Museum Initiatives, New York State history, Presentation, public program

Join descendants of DeWitt Clinton on Saturday, March 2 at the Erie Canal Museum to celebrate the sestercentennial—or 250th anniversary—of the birth of this visionary governor who championed and oversaw creation of New York's Erie Canal two centuries ago. Kenneth A. Silber, author of In DeWitt’s Footsteps: Seeing History on the Erie Canal, will discuss Read More »

History of the Camillus Erie Canal Park

January 23, 2019 Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, Event, history, Lecture, Presentation

Nestled between Nine Mile Creek and a wooded hillside near Camillus, New York, is the Camillus Erie Canal Park. The park was founded in 1972 by Elizabeth and Dr. David Beebe, whose dedication to Erie Canal heritage preserved a stretch of the 19th century Erie Canal and its Nine Mile Creek aqueduct, which was constructed Read More »

Lunchtime Lecture: Veterans of Water and War

November 16, 2018 Erie Canal, Event, history, Lecture, Museum news, Presentation

Many boatmen of the original Erie Canal joined the Union Army to fight in the Civil War just as the Enlarged Erie Canal was being completed in 1862. Those who returned to the boats and banks of the Canal found the culture changed, harsher, and more difficult. Fast forward to 1917: the Enlarged Canal closed Read More »

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Adirondack Reservoirs: Water for the Erie Canal

Ways of the Weighmaster Lunchtime Lecture

19th Century New York Travel and Foodways

TR & His Canals, a Free Curator Talk

Water Quality in the Erie Canal

New York’s Queen City: A History of Buffalo

Lecture: Biological Recovery in Onondaga Lake

Kids on the Canal Curator Talk

Schoharie Crossing: A Canal Tour Like Never Before

DeWitt Clinton’s 250th Birthday Anniversary

History of the Camillus Erie Canal Park

Lunchtime Lecture: Veterans of Water and War

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