BONUS EPISODE! An excerpt from my interview with Derrick Pratt from the Erie Canal Museum. In this episode: the intersection of whiskey and the building of the canal, how out of control canalers influenced temperance, the infamous Bloody Alley of Watervilet, and some beef between the canalers and... well... everybody else.

BONUS EPISODE! An excerpt from my interview with Derrick Pratt from the Erie Canal Museum. In this episode: the intersection of whiskey and the building of the canal, how out of control canalers influenced temperance, the infamous Bloody Alley of Watervilet, and some beef between the canalers and... well... everybody else.

BONUS EPISODE! An excerpt from my interview with Derrick Pratt from the Erie Canal Museum. In this episode:&nbsp;the intersection of whiskey and the building of the canal, how out of control canalers influenced temperance,&nbsp;the infamous Bloody Alley of Watervilet, and some beef between the canalers and... well... everybody else.

No One Would Dig a Canal Sober.

Was Is Could Be is Liz Russell's journey to find the joy in things past -  plain and simple. Through interviews with historians, authors, hobbyists, and average Joes we rediscover the lifestyles of our past and ask the question - what if we still did this today?

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Was Is Could Be is Liz Russell's journey to find the joy in things past - plain and simple. Through interviews with historians, authors, hobbyists, and average Joes we rediscover the lifestyles of our past and ask the question - what if we still did this today?

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