Books set in Sullivan County, NY and by Sullivan County, NY authors will be featured.

Nancy will present The Key to Puzzler’s Lock at the museum’s weekend fair to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Delaware & Hudson Canal’s groundbreaking ceremony. The first shovel full of dirt was turned in Wurtsboro, NY to build the canal which operated from 1828 to 1898. The fair coincides with New York’s Path Through History Weekend.

Nancy will present The Key to Puzzler’s Lock at the museum’s weekend fair to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Delaware & Hudson Canal’s groundbreaking ceremony. The first shovel full of dirt was turned in Wurtsboro, NY to build the canal which operated from 1828 to 1898. The fair coincides with New York’s Path Through History Weekend.

The D&H Canal made the Sullivan County Tanning Industry Possible

“By the 1830s Sullivan County tanners and those in the southeastern part of the Hardenbergh Patent had a decided advantage over those elsewhere in the Catskills, for ever since 1828 they had been able to ship their hides and the ground tanbark … over the Delaware and Hudson Canal.”

So wrote Alf Evers in his history “From Wilderness to Woodstock.” Nancy Bachana will detail how the canal became the engine of change for Sullivan, carrying passengers as well as cargo, and creating communities that thrived near the water highway.