The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal

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Folks didnt believe that a canal connecting the Hudson River with the Great Lakes could ever be built. But a young Politician De Witt Clinton had vision. He knew "Clintons Ditch" was more than possible: It was a necessary way to link East Coast ports to the frontier. Join Cheryl Harness on an animated journey into history beginning with the Erie Canals groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July 1817. Celebrating the mood of post-war America she uses an engaging text and distinctive panoramic watercolors including detailed maps of the route to describe a massive engineering feat and make the pageantry of the Erie Canals grand opening come alive. It was Americas first superhighway.