Sugar River is near Boonville NY, a key town on the Black River Canal, now a place of memories and traces of a lost world.

The gentleman is clearly posing. Imagine his name, his mission that day, and more. Any budding novelists among erudite canal historians? The image is begging for an fictitious narrative.

This is your prompt. Please submit your synopses of your novels.

Unrelated: I’m hoping some of you still have “cycle the Erie” images to share. I’m mystified as to what caused the glitch that images failed to display in this table of contents.