Low Bridge!: Folklore and the Erie Canal (York State Books) (1962)

by Lionel D. Wyld

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Photographs, drawings, and folk songs accompany stories depicting the proud pioneers and colorful characters who built and used the canal.

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Low Bridge! Folklore and the Erie Canal

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1962

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Samuel Hopkins Adams

Walter D. Edmonds

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Erie Canal, New York, USA

Mohawk River, New York, USA

Schenectady, New York, USA

Buffalo, New York, USA

Utica, New York, USA

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Epigraph

York State is a country.
CARL CARMER
Dark Trees to the Wind

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"Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it."
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby-Dick

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To Norma with love

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Preface
"You must have heard of it," said the narrator in Moby-Dick, Melville's classic novel published in 1851, and the Erie Canal probably needs little introduction to any reader.

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The Erie Canal itself had a number of aliases. At first it was known as Clinton's Ditch, but gradually, as the project was completed, the term Big Ditch stuck and became a term of awe rather than contempt. (p. 21)

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