I like to imagine what it was like to have lived in one of many villages that began in the 1800’s along the Erie Canal in New York State. The industrial revolution just exploded all along the canal as the canal provided low cost transportation for raw materials and finished goods while at the same…read more

Ah, September’s song (click here). It is a time when the days dwindle down to a precious few. A time when the sun slips behind the Bristol hills earlier and earlier. On most nights now it isn’t even worthwhile to get out of my easy chair after dinner to do something outside before it gets…read more

Where does all that water from the Canandaigua watershed go? It flows along the Canandaigua Lake Outlet which empties into the Erie Canal at Lock E27 at Lyons, NY. It’s an endless cycle of rain falling onto the fields and forests around Canandaigua Lake, then slowly moving into the streams which feed Canandaigua Lake, and…read more