The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Indigenous nations that the French called the Iroquois, engaged in canoe-based trade ...

The Democrat and Chronicle's reporters and photographers, along with Syracuse University journalism students, examined the ...

LYONS — Bob Stopper of Lyons has been an Erie Canal enthusiast and promoter of Lyons as an historic canal town for many years ...

The Erie Canal is a waterway that not only played a pivotal role in New York's economic development, but expansion of the country westward.

On a languid boat trip through Champagne, France, a cruise-travel expert discovers the upside to sailing at five miles per ...

When my friend, Erik, first floated the idea of a self-piloted voyage along the Erie Canal, I did the math. From my apartment ...

Sixty years ago, these freshwater springs and forests were drowned by a 9,500-acre reservoir. Could the ecosystem finally be ...

From small towns to scenic stops, these affordable Ohio day trips deliver more fun than their price tag suggests.

Jane Shafer Wadhams Kitchen, aged 100, passed peacefully on December 30, 2025. She was born June 18 1925, Brockport, NY, daughter of Charles and Marian Wadhams. As a girl she chased Erie Canal barges ...

Before his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Geography is destiny!” This assertion prompts thinking ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late ...

There are drives that shuffle past strip malls, and then there are drives that suddenly drop you into the 1830s like Roscoe ...