There’s a painting in the long hallway at Richardson’s Canal House that you can get lost in for hours. The artist was Edith Lunt Small, who passed away in 2017, 38 years after creating this fanciful world on canvas. Edith lives on in the painting, portraying herself as a skinny-dipping artist swimming in the Erie…
Joshua Slocum On April 24, 1895, Joshua Slocum sailed out of Fairhaven, Massachusetts on his gaff-rigged sloop Spray. He returned to Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1898, and documented that incredible solo sail around the globe in his book Sailing Alone Around the World. His trip and the book were worldwide phenomenons, and Slocum…
Richardson’s Tavern When the Erie Canal was being constructed, it ignited the local economy along its length first as laborers moved in and eventually as the travelers on the canal moved through the area. One such boomtown was Perinton, a canal town with a tavern located alongside the Erie Canal where travelers could get a…
Taming the Mohawk River The Erie Canal was first proposed when Thomas Jefferson was President. The sheer expense and amount of labor that it would take were much more than Jefferson could imagine, and he described it as a “little short of madness”. However, the upside for a canal that would open up the west…