THE CANAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE

And Co-Sponsor THE MCC DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND

GEOSCIENCES

announces its

Winter Symposium & Annual Meeting

Saturday, March 2, 2019 All events located in:

Warshof Conference Center, Room Monroe A & B (Enter through lobby at northeast corner of Building 3)

Brighton Campus, Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623

See attached maps

Parking: Lot M, Center Road

Chairs: R. Mangold, Ruth Rosenberg- Naparsteck, T. Grasso & B. Schwendy

Program

8:00 A.M - 8:40 A.M. Registration Coffee Etc., Continental Breakfast

8:40 A.M.- 8:45 A.M. Welcome MCC as Co-Sponsor.

8:45 A.M. - 9:25 A.M. Changes in the Great Lakes System That Facilitated Shipping

before the St. Lawrence Seaway Era.

Matthew L. Daley Ph.D., Associate Professor, Grand Valley State

University, Allendale, Michigan.

9:25 A.M. - 9:55 A.M. Lift Bridges on the Erie Canal .

Gregory Johnson, PE, PMP, Waterway Structures Engineer,

Bergmann Architects, Engineers, Planners.

9:55 A.M. - 10:25 A.M. Casting a Wider Net: New Audiences for Historic Canals

Bob Radliff, Executive Director, Erie Canalway National Heritage

Corridor.

10:25 A.M. – 10:40 A.M. Coffee Break

10:40 A.M. – 11:25 A.M. Shipwrecks: What Lies Beneath? Stories from Lake

Champlain and Seneca Lake.

Art Cohn, Founding Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime

Museum and Captain, Tugboat C.L. Churchill.

11:25 A.M. – 11:55 A.M. Keynote Address--New York State Canals: A year in Review

and a Look Ahead.

Brian Stratton, Director, NYS Canal Corporation, Albany, NY.

11:55 A.M. – 12:40 P.M. Lunch Soup, Pasta, Sandwiches,

Coffee, Soft Drinks, and Dessert

12:30 P.M. – 1:15 P.M. Overcoming Niagara; The Welland Canal

Janet Larkin, Ph.D., Author, Fredonia, NY .

1:15 P.M. – 1:50 P.M. Bringing Brockport Back to the Canal

Margaret Blackman, Mayor of Brockport.

Brockport, NY.

1:50 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. Restroom Break

2:00 P.M. – 2:40 P.M. Winter Maintenance in the Waterford Flight

Joe Moloughney, P.E., Eastern Division Canal Engineer, New

York State Canal Corporation.

Albany, NY.

2:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M. Take a Tour on the Grand Erie Canal in 1826

Brad Utter, Senior Historian/Technological History, New York

State Museum. Schenectady, NY .

3:10 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. CSNYS Annual Business Meeting and Announcements

Annual Meeting-BOD Election (Dave Kinyon)

Year End Review, Erie Canal HeritagePark (Bruce Schwendy)

Int’l. Assoc. of Great Lakes Research Conf.

Tall Ships - Buffalo 2019

CSNYS Study Tours

3:30 P.M. Adjournment