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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 »

Water/Ways Wednesday at the Weighlock with Don Meixner

August 7, 2019 Erie Canal Museum, Event, Free program, Museum news, Presentation, public program

During this free program in the Weighlock Gallery of the Erie Canal Museum, musician and Erie Canal expert Don Meixner will perform songs that traveled the Erie Canal and points west with the diggers and other workers who immigrated from many different countries. He will talk about the origins of some of these songs, and discuss how Read More »

Middle Eastern Waters, a Water/Ways Program

August 5, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal Museum, Event, Free program, Museum Initiatives, Museum news, Presentation, public program

Join us at the Erie Canal Museum on Monday, August 5 for a special Water/Ways program presented by folklorist Nada Odeh in cooperation with our friends at New York Folklore. It is free and open to the public. Odeh, a native of Syria, will give a presentation about the importance of water in Middle Eastern Read More »

The Water Drum: Haudenosaunee Craft, Music, and Dance

Haudenosaunee Craft, Music & Dance

August 3, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal Museum, family program, Free program, history, Museum news, Presentation, public program, Water/Ways

During two special Water/Ways programs presented by members of Haudenosaunee tribes and coordinated by New York Folklore, artists show how to make traditional Native American water drums and perform Haudenosaunee songs and social dances. Both programs are free and open to the public. They will take place in the second-floor Weighlock Gallery of the Erie 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 »

Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Syracuse

July 25, 2019 educational program, Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, guided tour, history, Museum Initiatives, Museum news, Presentation, public program, walking tour

Join the Erie Canal Museum for a guided walking tour of the Downtown Syracuse Heritage Area on Thursday, July 25 at 12 p.m. The tour begins at the Museum, located at 318 Erie Boulevard East in Syracuse. It follows the route of the 19th century Erie Canal through Clinton Square, and takes participants through Hanover Square as 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 »

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 »

Curator Talk: Erie Canal Postcards

February 20, 2019 Erie Canal Museum, Event, Free program, Museum news, Presentation, public program

In the first part of the 20th century, postcards were all the rage in America. The Erie Canal Museum is home to many of these small pieces of history. In our first curator talk of 2019, Ashley Maready will discuss the growth in use of postcards, or "postals," in our country, how they came to 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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