Michael Keene is an author and frequent guest speaker at many New York
libraries and historical societies. Now he's
produced a new program, “The Psychic
Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed America”. A few years ago he published a book by that same title.
The Erie canal is intimately
intertwined with historical, religious, and social issues of our state. Candor
Free Library is sponsoring this program, along with many other libraries.
The program will be a live presentation premiering on YouTube Premier.
Thursday, April 1, 2021 ~ 11 am Eastern time.
The program is
free, but registration required so you can get a link to the presentation. To
register, go to http://michaeltkeene.com/registration/
—Excerpt
from “The Psychic Highway”—
“It delivered people to
important places for important reasons, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Seneca
Falls for history’s first women’s convention, to Rochester to meet and support
abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman, to witness the Fox Sisters
summon sprits, or maybe people on the temperance bandwagon hurrying to the Burned
Over District so Charles Finney could save their souls”.