The folks near Fulton, New York, on the Erie Canal, started having yearly outings to eat and play music and record sightings of the lock moss nesters---what the creature was doing and if it made sounds of any kind or not. That happened after a folk fan heard me tell the story on the JJulia Belle Swain steamboat one summer---around 1987 I think. They just adopted the idea of the creature and had it living in their canal (at least where there was still water in it). I was really honored. For a few years they sent me the lists of sightings. I got a great version of an Erie Canal ballad called "THE BULLHEAD BOAT" from Lyman King of Fulton, N.Y. Had a ball singing it.

Art Thieme