Library Record
Metadata
Title |
Canal Boatman: My life on upstate waterways |
Author |
Garrity, Richard |
Summary |
This book contains a large and intriguing sampling of little known history and the lore of canal boating, and of the men worked the Barge Canal and the Erie before that. A narrative of a canaller eking a living for himself and his family in the 1920s and the Depression thirties, working during the boating season on the canal and taking various jobs "ashore" dring the winter monther - taken from the foreword |
Subjects |
Erie Canal (New York) Boaters (persons)--New York (State)--Biography Canals--New Yorrk (State)-- History |
Published Date |
1977 |
Publisher |
Syracuse University Press |
Published Place |
Syracuse, New York |
Physical Description |
xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Catalog Number |
2024.2.2 |
Collection |
The Cobblestone Museum |