Great site! (I've come to expect nothing less from your shop).

One bad link: on http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/batteau/index.html

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/batteau/Exhibit.html

should be

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/batteau/exhibit.html

The difference is case makes the Schenectady piece unreachable to those who
haven't made the same error themselves somewhere along the line.

Keep up the good work. The work of the State Museum and of the folks at
Peebles Island are money extremely well spent in the midst of things like
the 40 million dollar tree relocation project on the Northway.

Bill Carr
Town of Malta
Saratoga County, NY

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Lord" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: State Museum Replica batteau on the Web


> Next month the State Museum's full-scale replica 1790s Mohawk River
batteau "Discovery", built in 1991, goes on exhibit as part of the new
"Windows on New York" installation. But few people completely understand why
this 30 foot long wooden boat was created.
>
> It was the vehicle, in every sense of the word, for a four year program of
field outreach that carried the insights gathered from Museum research to
communities across the State. This research explored the era of inland
navigation and canals that led up to the better known Erie Canal. As a
bicentennial program, these discoveries were now being shared with the very
places along the waterways that had been part of that history, 200 years
earlier.
>
> As a special project for "New York State History Month - 2001", a website
has been created that allows you to virtually sail along with the crew in
this boat during its four years on the canals and waterways of New York
State.
>
> Climb aboard at: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/batteau/index.html
>
>
>
> Philip Lord, Jr.
> Director, Division of Museum Services
> New York State Museum
> Room CEC 3097 - Empire State Plaza
> Albany, NY
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> (518) 486-2037
> Website: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services.html
>