If you ever navigated on the Erie canal.

[amerikat]

Love this version of this song.

[amerikat]

1. I wonder if there is a marked grave for Sal?

[NBachers]

2. My hometown of Spencerport, one mule-day drive west of Rochester. I grew up like Huck Finn. I live far away now, but I

still long to be in my beloved hometown of Spencerport on the Erie Canal. What a great place to be a kid.

[NBachers]

3. I watched an entertaining 1935 movie about the Erie Canal called "The Farmer Takes a Wife" starring a young Henry Fonda.

Spencerport's not in it, but Rochester, Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rome, and other familiar towns are. There's plenty of drinking, fighting, romance, singing, and canal life. It really shows how the canal was a center of life for the communities located on it. It gives an entertaining glimpse of what Spencerport canal life could have been like. The movie takes place around 1850. Since it's an older movie, it really looks like it was filmed "back then."
I watched it on Amazon Prime. It's also available on YouTube.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&fbclid=IwY2xjawE5HGpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHemzqV1xjD77K1BdD2TdA__LbI50z9QTynZSlbRdrDMk-jYUpRYNCgbipg_aem_CaemI2SKSrXqIPk_CK_Qgw

[Easterncedar]

5. Thanks for this! I will be watching it soon!

Sounds like fun.

[amerikat]

6. I'll check it out!

Thanks

[Easterncedar]

4. Love this!

I stopped at the Erie Canal Heritage Park off I-90 eastbound last week. Very cool. They are going to be bringing an old 80-foot barge to be cradled in the dry lock in front of the restored Erie Hotel next year as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations. Getting it there will be a massive challenge, and what a cool display it will be.