Adult Summer Reading: The Irish Who Built the Erie Canal

Join local author Tim Bohen to learn more about the Irish who built the Erie Canal, including:

• how Lockport-Pendleton was one of the most difficult sections of the Erie Canal
• the working and living conditions of the Lockport workers
• the two riots that happened in Lockport
• Chauncey Olcott, the great Irish singer and songwriter whose grandfather worked on the Erie Canal
• the statues to the mostly Irish canal workers that were recently installed at the Flight of Five locks   

He will also read from his new book, Emerald Thread: The Irish in Buffalo, which will be available to purchase the evening of the program.

Free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

Summer Reading at the Lockport Public Library is sponsored by M&T Bank.