Our ERA OF THE ERIE series includes:
Episode 1
- BANKWATCH: Meet "Sneakers" Ashbery
 Bankwatch is the story of how
an 84-year-old man walks over ten miles each day to safeguard just one
stretch of the Erie Canal. New York state has maintained a
bankwatch program in this one special region of the waterway for
generations. Learn why, and what makes this section as unique as it is.
Includes aerials, animations, and a time-lapse sequence
showing an actual canal lock in operation. Background stories of
breakouts by local historians C.W. "Bill" Lattin (Orleans County
Historian) and Jean Keplinger (Town of Perinton historian).
Run time: 29 minutes: 56 seconds.
Episode
2
- LOCK TIDE: Behind the scenes at the Erie's locks
 Lock
Tide examines how the designers of the Erie Canal managed to get boats
up and down the varying elevations encountered on its route across New
York.
Find out why it is that water is lowered over five hundred feet on the
trip from
the
Niagara River to the Hudson, but not a drop of that Niagara water ever
actually arrives there. Learn how a community in the Adirondack
mountains gave its life as a town to keep the locks east of
the Oswego River flowing, and be surprised by a highway in the
wilderness that cut a straight line across the site of the famous locks
at Lockport almost twenty years before the canal was even begun.
Includes aerials, animations, and time lapse sequences of locks with
expert commentary. Background by Douglas Farley (Director, Lockport's
Erie Canal Discovery Center ,
Robert Brown (NYS Canal
Corporation superintendent, ret'd: Section 5, and a director
of the The Canal Society
of New York State ), and
John McIntosh Jr., LS (McIntosh
& McIntosh Surveyors PC, Lockport, NY). Run time: 30
minutes: 00 seconds)
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Episode
3
- A "DAY" TO REMEMBER: A motor barge comes home
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2006 First Place Winner!
in SACC-TV 16's "Why Schenectady"
film festival
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The year was 1918.
The new third-generation barge canal had been completed, and
shippers began to build a fleet of nearly a hundred motorized vessels
that were designed to just fit into its massive locks. The
first of those ships - which fatefully also was the last to be taken
out of service in 1994 - was the Day Peckinpaugh. Hear the story of how
this very vessel was rescued from the cutting torch and transported
from Erie, PA to the Hudson River in 2005 by the NYS Museum and the New
York State Canal Society for eventual conversion into a floating canal
museum. Background by Thomas X Grasso (President, The Canal Society of New
York State), and Craig Williams (Senior Historian, The New York State Museum).
Run time: 29 minutes: 44 seconds
Video trailer
coming soon!
LOCKPORT
REMEMBERS: A special commemorative program
 The
"proposal"
that led to the Wedding of The Waters was made in a series of articles
written by Jesse Hawley starting in 1805. The "courtship"
that brought the waters closer together involved thousands of workers
laboring over hundreds of miles of wilderness... but the wedding itself
was finally consummated on October 26, 1825 at Lockport, NY.
Now, one hundred-eighty years to the day after that
celebration, and twenty years before the bicentennial celebration of
the Grand Erie Canal, Lockport has decided that it will
remember that day! Historical background by Douglas
Farley (Director, Lockport's
Erie Canal Discovery Center). Comments by Michael
Tucker, (Mayor, City of Lockport) and Carmela Mantella, (Director, NYS
Canal Corporation). Run time: 29 minutes: 57 seconds
Video trailer coming soon!
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