Ferrisburgh Historical Society News
Date: Sunday, February 16
Time: 2:00
Place: Ferrisburgh Community Center/Town Hall
Speaker: Erik Andrus, The Vermont Sail Project

Last September, Erik took his handmade sailing barge on a 10-day journey down the Hudson River to deliver Vermont potatoes, apples, maple syrup and the like to hungry New Yorkers, an event that is remarkable only because it was 2013.

Between the opening of the Champlain canal in 1823 and the advent of the railroad in the late 1860's, sailing barges were a vital link between farmland up the Hudson Valley and the ever-growing population of New York City.
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