On September 27 at 3:00 p.m., the Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library presents anElizabeth Hearn Gleich Lecture: Reframing the Canal

Speaker Steph Adams, Director of Interpretation at the Erie Canal Museum, will discuss how the Erie Canal has tremendously impacted both the State and the Nation in its two hundred years of history. The Canal itself—in addition to how we remember it and talk about it—helps shape American culture and our current reality.

Adams will use artwork featured in Mingling the Waters as well as work by past Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence to discuss the relationship between art, memory, heritage tourism, and history.

As we move toward the completion of the Canal’s Bicentennial period and into America 250 commemorations, it is up to us to shape how the Canal is remembered at its next milestone.This lecture is free to attend, and we are offering free museum admission day of.