Both Owen and Williams, native New Yorkers, grew up learning about the lasting legacy of the Erie Canal. Williams is an illustrator and art instructor who recently retired from teaching art in the ...

The Erie Canal, America’s 19th century engineering marvel, and the promise of a new nation The Erie Canal, one of the earliest transcendent tales of the American experience and an endeavor first ...

There will also be an Erie Canal Bicentennial Art Exhibit at Stony Point Art Studio in Fairport on Friday, June 6, through Sunday, June 8. Fairport will also have its annual Canal Days that Friday ...

visit the Erie Canal this year. There are several festivals planned for the bicentennial. It is upstate New York's masterpiece. Artist Dawn L. Jordan is a member of the Finger Lakes Art Council.

Explore the past, present and future of the Erie Canal on its bicentennial anniversary. Explore the past, present, and future of the Erie Canal on its bicentennial anniversary. We are diving deep ...

Utter, author of “Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York’s Erie Canal.” “States didn’t build roads before the canal,” said Utter, a historian at the New York State Museum.

CAMILLUS, N.Y. — Of the 32 aqueducts constructed in the first enlargement of the Erie Canal in the 1840s, only one still stands. Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct in Camillus is the only Erie Canal ...

Right in the heart of downtown Erie is the historic Customs house, or better known as the Erie Art Museum ... s transportation involved the Erie Canal, steamboats and wagons, while the bricks ...