Searching for the Erie Canal

Searching for the Erie Canal will be presented by Tim McDonnell, an educator at RIT’s Osher Institute.  When New Yorkers, led by DeWitt Clinton, constructed the Erie Canal in the early nineteenth century, it changed the state and nation forever.  Later on, two revisions of the canal were made:  the enlarged Erie Canal and the Barge Canal, still in operation today.  Learn more about all three canals and the remarkable "ruins" that we can all visit today from Albany to Buffalo.  Tim McDonnell is a retired teacher and board member of the NY Geographic Alliance.  He has received awards for his lessons from the National Council of Geographic Educators.  At the Osher Institute, McDonnell has led courses on a wide variety of topics including geography, history, astronomy, geology, and photography.

A free public program

Tuesday

August 7 at 7 p.m.

at the Society ,

8966 Rt. 5 and 20  

(the former St. Joseph’s Catholic Church).