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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 »

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 »

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 »

Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Syracuse

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 »

Mapping David Vaughan’s New York

October 25, 2018 Erie Canal, Event, history, Lecture, Museum Initiatives, New York State history, Presentation

Make plans now to visit the Erie Canal Museum at 12 p.m. Thursday, October 25 for Mapping David Vaughan's New York, a talk by historian Craig Williams about the life of 19th century Canal cartographer David Vaughan. An Irish immigrant, Vaughan came to Albany in the late 1840s already skilled in the tools and techniques sorely Read More »

The History of the Oswego Canal

October 17, 2018 Event, Free program, history, Lecture, New York State history, Presentation

New York State's Oswego Canal is the topic of a free curator talk at the Erie Canal Museum on Wednesday, October 17 at 12:00 p.m. Curator Ashley Maready will use artifacts from the Museum's collections to discuss the the origins and construction of this waterway, how it changed over the years, and its current use. Read More »

Gere's Lock on the Erie Canal near Syracuse, New York.

Lunchtime Lecture: From Gere’s Lock to the Gear Factory

September 13, 2018 Erie Canal, Event, history, Lecture, Presentation

Edward A. Bogucz, executive director of the Syracuse Center of Excellence and associate professor at Syracuse University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, presents the Erie Canal Museum's third lunchtime lecture of 2018 on Thursday, September 13 at 12 p.m. His talk, titled From Gere's Lock to the Gear Factory, offers insight into the Canal's role Read More »

The Erie Canal in Popular Culture

August 23, 2018 Erie Canal, Free program, history, Museum news, Museums, Presentation

In addition to spurring economic development and immigration, the Erie Canal played a big role in influencing popular culture in New York and the United States. During this free presentation at the Erie Canal Museum in downtown Syracuse, Curator Ashley Maready will discuss the Erie Canal's role in and influence on popular culture, including and not Read More »

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