Pictured is the 69th New York Militia. Pamela Vittorio states that “among the 69 NYM was a canal steamboat captain/private who also had a Landing on the canal at Chittenango after he returned from the Civil War.” Vittorio will present The Role the Erie Canal Played in the Civil War in Chittenango Nov. 13.
A postcard of the Remington Arms and Ammunition Co. and Erie Canal in Ilion as the canal would have looked during the Civil War period.
(Chittenango, NY – Nov. 2014) Pamela Vittorio will present The Role the Erie Canal Played in the Civil War on Thursday Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, 717 Lakeport Road in Chittenango.
Vittorio is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of English Language Studies at the New School University in New York City. She refined her historical methodologies and research skills in an interdisciplinary MA/Ph.D. program in Languages, Literature, and History of the Near East at New York University.
Vittorio has numerous publications and is a frequent presenter at international conferences in the fields of language learning and teaching, and corpus linguistics. She has done extensive research on the Erie Canal over the past decade on a wide variety of topics and conducts various workshops and programs on Erie Canal social and cultural history, language, and genealogy throughout the year at Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum (CLCBM). Currently, she is the editor of CLCBM’s From the Boatyard newsletter and a CLCBM Board of Trustee member.
In recognition of the last year of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Sue Greenhagen (Village of Morrisville Historian), Matthew Urtz (Madison County Historian) and Dot Willsey (23rd Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend) initiated the Madison County Civil War Series of programs that feature New York State’s role in the Civil War with particular attention to Madison County’s connection to the War Between the States. Called “The Banner County” in the mid-1800s because of its voting support of anti-slavery measures, Madison County was a hot-bed of activities that were critical to the outbreak of the war.
Vittorio’s program on the Erie Canal in the Civil War will be the last program in the series for 2014.
2015 programs will include Lincoln’s Funeral Train in NYS in April 2015, Samuel Beckwith of Hamilton: Lincoln’s Telegrapher presented by Matt Urtz in May, Appomattox presented by Patrick Schroeder, Historian at Appomattox Court House, Saturday June 13 at 7 p.m. in Peterboro, and The Loomis Gang after the War in 1866 presented by Sue Greenhagen in 2016.
The public is encouraged to invite others to attend the free programs.
For more information, call 315-366-2453 or 315-280-8828.