Strides Toward Democracy Film Series: “Erie: The Canal That Built America”
October 18 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
“Erie: The Canal That Made America” is a one-hour documentary, marking the bicentennial of the start of construction of the Erie Canal when surveyors and excavators began linking a young United States’ east to its western frontier. It depicts how a young nation broke through with its first national public works project – America’s greatest – by succeeding in constructing a supposedly impossible-to-build, 363 mile man-made waterway to America’s heartland. Once the waters of the Great Lakes were wed with the Atlantic Ocean, the canal helped create what America now knows as the Empire State and propelled New York City into the role of America’s leading port and economic hub.
Join us for a post-show Q&A with The Deputy Director of the Erie Canal Museum, Derrick Pratt.