Wednesday September 10, 2003
Free at 7:00 PM in the NY State Museum Theater
The Navigators
by Phil Lord
Historian and author Philip Lord Jr. will discuss his new book The
Navigators: A Journal of Passage on the Inland Waterways of New York
(1793).  Follow the account of one boatload of adventurers as they make
a journey to the Great Lakes and back again in the autumn of 1793.
Their observations along the route provide an unprecedented glimpse of
life on the edge of the American frontier after the Revolution and
record the first tentative experiments in artificial navigation in New
York State - an emergent canal age decades before the Erie Canal.  A
book sale and signing will follow the lecture.