{"id":120125,"date":"2022-03-17T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120125"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:34:58","slug":"boxers-and-boatmen-a-canalside-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120125","title":{"rendered":"Boxers and Boatmen: A Canalside Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Canastota-Public-Library.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Canastota-Public-Library.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Canastota-Public-Library-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Canastota-Public-Library-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canastota Public Library and the Canaltown Museum are sponsoring a spring Canalside Talk at the library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Pamela Vittorio of the Chittenango Boat Landing Museum will discuss \u201cBoxers and Boatmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boatmen on the state canals were known to get into brawls; this talk takes a look at a few canal boatmen with boxing prowess who rubbed elbows and bumped fists with local prize fighters of the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vittorio grew up across the road from the Erie Canal. She is a professional genealogist, a historian and a part-time associate professor in the Department of English Language Studies at the New School in Manhattan; she serves as interim director at the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boxers and Boatmen Talk will last about an hour and will be followed by a short question-and-answer period. The presentation will take place on the second floor of the Canastota Public Library, 102 W. Center St., Canastota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canastota Public Library and the Canaltown Museum are sponsoring a spring Canalside Talk at the library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Pamela Vittorio of the Chittenango Boat Landing Museum will discuss \u201cBoxers and Boatmen.\u201d Boatmen on the state canals were known to get into brawls; this talk takes a look at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}