While much of the infrastructure of the Erie Canal era is preserved and documented, the lifeblood of the canal — the mules and hoggees — is quickly becoming erased. Boaters on today’s canal can relive ...

GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the vessel is ...

“I’ve got a mule, and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal … Low bridge, everybody down.” It was a popular song we sang in music class in Martin Luther School when I was growing up in ...

Anyone who grew up in upstate New York probably knows the Erie Canal song.