Canal Water and Whiskey

A traveler along the route from the Hudson to Lake Erie can still visit the choice remains of New York's once incomparable canals. Few who came upon these aging stone locks & tumbled aqueducts actually view them for what they really are--our Nation's pyramids. From its very beginnings, the Erie Canal, a project of tremendous imagination & ingenuity, had the makings of myth & folklore. Its dimensions staggered the imagination. It vibrated with the gusto & exuberence of a young & confident nation. Certainly to the people of the nineteenth century, the Canal was a catalyst for heroic actions. In this work Marvin Rapp is more concerned with the lives & lore of the people the Erie Canal touched & shaped. CANAL WATER & WHISKEY is not written as a tightly drawn historical tome. It is instead the prize collection of a connoisseur. Rapp pursued stories on the Old Erie like others sought rare prints or period furniture. His treasures of historical vignettes, tall tales, etc. has much in common with a box of old plate glass photographs. It provides evidence of a world now all but vanished. As we thumb through it, that world springs back to life.Rapp, Marvin A. is the author of 'Canal Water and Whiskey' with ISBN 9781878097071 and ISBN 1878097075.