Meet Sneakers Ashbery In Bankwatch, this 84-year-old NYS Canal Corporation employee walks OVER ten miles each day to safeguard just one stretch of the modern Barge Canal. Lock Tide explores some of the challenges faced in getting boats over hills; and in Day to Remember, a very special motor barge was saved from the cutting torch and transported across New York State to eventually be converted into a floating Erie Canal museum.  Lockport Remembers is a special program commemorating the completion of the original canal, and of the opening ceremony held at Lockport on October 26, 1825.

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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.

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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

2006 First Place Winner! in SACC-TV 16's "Why Schenectady" film festival

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

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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

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