PRICE TAGS 105 – Erie

 

Download the latest Price Tags here:

 

 http://www.pricetags.ca/pricetags/pricetags105.pdf

 

 

This is a special issue of Price Tags, for two reasons.

 

I had so much material from this summer’s bicycle tour along the Erie Canal that I created “Tag Alongs” – mini-Price Tags that act as appendices – so I could pursue particular interests (mainly architecture) without distracting too much from the storyline.   You can link to these mini-issues whenever you see a “Tag Along” in Price Tags 105, or directly by clicking these links:

 

 Architecture in Upstate New York - http://www.pricetags.ca/pricetags/tag105arch.pdf

 

 Ruins - http://www.pricetags.ca/pricetags/Tag105ruins.pdf

 

 Rochester - http://www.pricetags.ca/images/Tagalong105roch.jpg

 

This issue describes “one of the wonders of the world” - the Erie Canal - and speculates about a way of life that may be seeing its last days.  You can add your own observations and speculations in the ‘Comments’ section when I post Price Tags 105 on my blog – www.pricetags.wordpress.com

 

There were over 500 people who cycled almost 600 kilometres across Upstate New York on this tour.  I’m betting many of them would be interested in this issue, but I have no way of sending it to them.  That’s why I’m asking for your help.

 

If it’s true that everyone is separated by only six degrees, then if every Price Tags reader forwarded this issue to someone who might have a connection to someone who knows someone who knows someone, etc., who might have cycled the canal this July, we can reach them all!

 

So a favour: please forward this issue AT LEAST ONCE to someone who knows someone who might, say, live in New York State, or has a passion for transportation history, or does bike tours.  And then ask them to forward it at as well. 

 

That would make this issue doubly special.

 

Thanks,

 

Gord Price

 

www.pricetags.ca

www.pricetags.wordpress.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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