Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Oct. 16 ...

I booked a canal houseboat through Erie Canal Adventures, just outside of Rochester, New York. They rent vessels equipped ...

Two centuries later, the canal is still one of the greatest engineering feats in American history. 2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the ...

“One of the greatest of its kind in the world,” declared an orator at the project’s inauguration, “celebrating one of the greatest eras in the history of the State.” “Bold in conception,” exhorted the ...

Buffalo Maritime Center’s replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief arrived in Rochester on Sept. 27 for its fourth port stop along its Bicentennial Voyage through the Erie Canal. The 33-day voyage ...

Friends Of The Buffalo Story, Red Thread Theatre, Imagine Theatre, and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation present the world premiere of On the Canal, book, music, and lyrics by Neal Radice, ...

As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.

In September 1825, the Seneca Chief left Buffalo for Manhattan—a moment that would help transform western New York State into a boomtown. Here’s how to celebrate the bicentennial. The World Canals ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” set sail from Buffalo on Wednesday morning to commemorate the canal’s 200th anniversary. People packed the commercial slip at Canalside to see ...

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People relax in the shade at Canalside during the opening festivities of the World Canals Conference on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. This week, the Erie Canal will be the center focus of ...

Anyone who grew up in upstate New York probably knows the Erie Canal song. It’s a ditty about a mule named Sal, written more than century ago, in a tribute to the days when barges with lumber, coal ...