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The program addresses the history of food supply in the U.S. and the Erie Canal's importance to the midwestern grain industry ...
Michael Messina-Yauchzy calls this project his "biggest undertaking." He promises a balanced look at the Erie Canal.
On July 26, the Erie Canal Museum’s new walking tour, “Burned Over: The Erie Canal and Fire Walking Tour,” is a quarter ...
The Cattaraugus County Museum’s “Summer at the Stone House” event series continues its 2025 schedule Thursday, July 24, with ...
As the nation celebrates Independence Day, another historical event from July 4 is remembered. On July 4 in 1817, ...
This year’s Convention Days celebration in Seneca Falls promises a weekend of lively history, scholarly insight, and ...
A community planning committee and the Women’s Rights National Historical Park have finalized a full slate of events for next weekend’s Convention Days 2025, an annual summer ...
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Erie Canal Museum, the Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
It’s technically been the Erie Canal’s bicentennial the entire nine years that Natalie Stetson has been executive director of the Erie Canal Museum, in downtown Syracuse. Construction of the ...
The then West Troy village had two entrances, also referred to as sidecuts, that connected the canal to the Hudson River.
As you well know by now, 2025 is the bicentennial of the official opening of the Erie Canal. Many people do not realize that ...