Chair, the program committee. Dave and i thank you all for coming this evening to our lecture series. A nice turnout, a lot of different competition out there, but who can compete with this man right . Bill merchant, a great friend of mine, but of course, hes a great historian and hes really wheel and bringing forth the true history of a great story known as the delaware and hudson canal. So tonight, bill will give you a chock full of new information, great insights and wonderment bill merchant everyone. Thank you very much for coming this evening. Im the Deputy Director for collections historian and here at the dean Canal Historical Society and im the chair or president of the delaware and hudson transportation heritage council. Now that ive gotten over the most difficult part of the talk, im really delighted to do this particular presentation. I have never done it here for the Canal Society. My general history of the dredge. Im working on a book on the topic and itll probably be call
Lecture series. A nice turnout, a lot of different competition out there, but who can compete with this man right . Bill merchant, a great friend of mine, but of course, hes a great historian and hes really wheel and bringing forth the true history of a great story known as the delaware and hudson canal. So tonight, bill will give you a chock full of new information, great insights and wonderment bill merchant everyone. Thank you very much for coming this evening. Im the Deputy Director for collections historian and here at the dean Canal Historical Society and im the chair or president of the delaware and hudson transportation heritage council. Now that ive gotten over the most difficult part of the talk, im really delighted to do this particular presentation. I have never done it here for the Canal Society. My general history of the dredge. Im working on a book on the topic and itll probably be called the dutch canal 19th century engine of prosperity, because indeed it was. This is a
Thank you so much for being here. A little bit about the title of the book first. Howd you come to get that as the wording that you wanted out there . Keep climbing . Yeah. Well, its very relatable to what you have to do in life to succeed, and relatable because evybody has struggles and issues on a daily basis. And the people who are happy are the ones who keep climbing. When i was battling for my life, i had to keep moving forward to keep moving up. Lets talk about that. What happened to you when you sh a h b rty,me g foay basketball, came down, and my knee buckled and popped. Okay. That injury ended up changing my life forever. I was eventually diagnosed with advanced, fourthstage hodgkins lymphoma, and the doctors gave me roughly three months to live. No other indications, stage four . Nothing. No night sweats, no swollen lymph glands. I had cancer, basically, from what does your mom, how do you who told you what happened, and how do you prepare a child, you know, for Something Lik
Greatest end to a sporting event in history. An answered prayer. So was it . The great debate today, monday, 3 f2nds and all o3 f2 f23 f23 f2 33 f2 3 f2 era un hombre amistoso,3 f22 3 f23 c13 f23 f2 3 f2 f3 f2 3 3 f23 f2 3 f2 f23 f2 f2 f2 33 f2 3 c1 train. We want to take a second to remember one of our own. Jim lovell. An audio technician part of our nbc family and part of every concert we had on the plaza. He was on his way into Rockefeller Center to rehearse and prepare for the lighting of the Christmas Tree when the crash happened. Man that always did his job with grace even under extreme pressure. He was working tirelessly with a smile on his face. In the words of his son finn, words cant express how much my father meant to me. Rest easy, dad. I love you. And all of us here at nbc share those sentiments with the lovell family. Such a gentle man and nice man and greeted you with that famous smile. Everybody loved him and he was so good at what he did. Well miss him dearly. We do wa
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