Once upon a time, in the mid-1980's, I was involved in a number of archeological digs at early industrial sites and some historic Mohawk village sites near parts of The Erie Canal. Whenever we were engaged in serious digging, we always sang that song "Low Bridge, everybody down!" It was good for getting us all going.

Young ignoramus that I was then, I was shocked to see that there had been several Erie Canals and in some spots, the oldest canal was still to be seen not far off from the later version. They didn't learn us that in school! We got the old "Clinton's Ditch" lecture and then sped right through to The Meeting of The Waters!

It was a beautiful area to spend the summers, I'll tell ya that. HOT, but beautiful.