No, this is not indicative of Clyde traffic we’ll encounter during the Study Tour in just a few weeks. I’d love to know the event depicted here in this photo, which clearly illustrates how the canal served as a main artery back then. Can anyone make out the name of the vessel?

And no, these finely-dressed people of Palmyra are not showing disapproval of the photographer by turning their backs. I wonder what they were thinking, however, when the power generating house at Lock 29 in Palmyra suffered this foundation fail in July 1916.

Lock 60 is in Macedon, this image circa 1895, and I can only hope that if local volunteers greet and brief us on this tour, they’d be able to tell us about these folks and their enterprise. Here from the Macedon Historical Society are more photos showing canal activity in this area of Wayne.

To sign up for the April 3 and 4 tour, click here. See parts A and B of this title as well.