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Still Here: 200 Years on The Erie Canal

posted Aug 29, 2017

Come for the beautiful drone video, stay for a few bits of history.

Check out this short -- just five minutes -- documentary about the Erie Canal called Still Here: 200 Years on The Erie Canal. It was the winner of the New York State category in the first drone video competition at the State Fair.

The doc was produced by a Syracuse-area company called Call of the Loon Productions.

As you know, construction on the Erie Canal started 200 years ago this summer. It was an audacious idea at the time and it was hugely important in the history of New York. The canal helped make the state an economic powerhouse, and it influenced patterns of population and development from here far out into the west.

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+ Tracing the old canal
+ "Surely the water of this canal must be the most fertilizing of all fluids..."

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