Two longtime Erie Canal enthusiasts will celebrate the waterway's bicentennial with music and memories this weekend in Port Byron. The Canal Society of New York State will present "Two Canal Guys," ...

Remember the Erie Canal? Remember the song we sang in elementary school? (“Low bridge, everybody down”). Remember learning how it shaped modern history? Well, that ancient relic is still around, and ...

WATERFORD — The Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center, 2 Museum Lane, will celebrate the Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary with an exhibit, titled “Always Know Your Pal,” that shares the ...

NORTHVILLE – The Friends of the Northville Public Library will host musician and historian Dave Ruch July 21 at 7 p.m. with his program “A Mule Named Sal: Exploring the Music of the Erie Canal,” a ...

Anyone who grew up in upstate New York probably knows the Erie Canal song. It's a ditty about a mule named Sal, written more than century ago, in a tribute to the days when barges with lumber, coal ...

Schenectady’s Mohawk Harbor welcomed the Seneca Chief, a full-scale replica of the original, which New York Governor DeWitt Clinton sailed on to inaugurate the Erie Canal in 1825, with the Erie Canal ...