Maggie and Terry Rioux, veteran speakers at the Woods Hole Library’s Travel Series, will give an illustrated talk about a canal boat trip they took through the Erie Canal. The trip was offered by the Blount Company of Warren, Rhode Island which specializes in “Small Ship Adventures”. This voyage transited the historic Canal which was built in 1825 to carry goods and people “from Albany to Buffalo”(sing it!). Their trip was actually longer, originating in New York City and going up the Hudson River. After traveling through the Erie Canal the ship continued onto the St. Lawrence Seaway and Lake Ontario, sailing by the Thousand Islands and Saguenay Fjord, then visiting Quebec, and ending in Montreal for a total travel time of 2 weeks. The Rioux’s are well known to the Library audiences, having shown their wonderful photographs of scuba diving trips to the Caribbean, and canal boat trips in England. They are both recently retired from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he as dive officer, she as data librarian, and are viewing their retirement as a chance to have even more travel time. The public is invited to come and travel with them, vicariously, in the lower level meeting room of the Library which is easily handicapped accessible. As with almost all the other Library programs, this event is free. For more information, visit the website www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org or call the Library 508-548-8961.
