Erie Canal Archives

About much more than a piece of fruit, peach history details how the market encouraged an entrepreneur to invent and develop a new product.

Just one boat and one waterway, still, the Suez Canal blockage from a wedged in container ship affected the global supply chain.

Thinking about melting snow and ice, we can ask how soon there will be Arctic shipping lanes that provide new trade routes.

Creating considerable negative spillover, the Solo Traveler coffee (and tea) cup lid could be replaced by a vastly better design.

As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.