478- The Erie Canal & Virgin Mary- Part 1

This is a 4 part special presentation.

This is the first of four installments of a special Constant Procession presentation. This mini-series celebrates the 200^th year of the Erie Canal and how my creation of a documentary “The Origins of the Erie Canal” about the canal brought me closer to the Virgin Mary.

Title slide for the documentary that says The Erie Canal. 1825 to 2025 The letters are white and the background is an colorful illustration of a weight lock building from the eighteen hundreds. — The illustration of the weight lock building that weighed the freight on each canal boat, water would drain within this space and they would tax the freight.

During the movie shoots over a 5-year period I discovered that as I traveled to parts of New York State unknown to me, I found the Virgin Mary was always there. I became more sensitive to the real nature of her presence and I’ve continued to find her as I go on my overseas travels.

Here is the beginning of the story:

“A big part of America’s history almost never got built. Its builders ignored presidential advice, risked millions of dollars, and changed the course of America’s society by building a ditch

Work was begun in 1817 and completed in only seven years. But it was not simply a matter of digging a few trenches to link one river to a second and a third and so on. This was a man-made ditch, four feet deep, the height of an average car, and 40 feet wide, the width of a four-lane highway, 363 miles long, running almost the entire length of New York State, from East in Albany to West in Buffalo.”

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