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Re: Phil Lord lecture
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Nancy Hyden Woodward <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:36:17 -0400
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Who is the publisher?
Nancy Hyden Woodward

> From: Valerie Fish <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State
> history." <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:40:04 -0400
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> Subject: Phil Lord lecture
>
> Wednesday September 10, 2003
> Free at 7:00 PM in the NY State Museum Theater
> The Navigators
> by Phil Lord
> Historian and author Philip Lord Jr. will discuss his new book The
> Navigators: A Journal of Passage on the Inland Waterways of New York
> (1793).  Follow the account of one boatload of adventurers as they make
> a journey to the Great Lakes and back again in the autumn of 1793.
> Their observations along the route provide an unprecedented glimpse of
> life on the edge of the American frontier after the Revolution and
> record the first tentative experiments in artificial navigation in New
> York State - an emergent canal age decades before the Erie Canal.  A
> book sale and signing will follow the lecture.

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