Richard Garrity grew up on his father's boats on the Erie Canal in the early years of this century. From 1905 until 1916, when his father operated boats first i

During a few brief years in the 1940s and '50s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop. Previously u

Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day

The history of the C & O Canal in Maryland along the Potomac River, including summaries of interviews with eleven men and women who had lived or worked on the c