{"id":140,"date":"2015-09-04T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:01:45","slug":"holley-june-15-to-june-16-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/shearwater-iv\/shearwater-iv\/erie-canal-june-11-19-2015\/holley-june-15-to-june-16-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Holley June 14 – 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holley is a lovely town to visit. \u00a0They provide ample, free, docking along the canal \"20150614-DSC06928\"<\/a>wall and are unique among the places we visited in providing a map that describes the town’s attractions. \u00a0As with all photos, you may click on this map to see a larger image.<\/p>\n

The original canal route went from town to town. \u00a0Each of these towns grew and prospered as the canal provided less expensive, reliable transportation to deliver the products to mark
\n\"20150616_Holley<\/a>et. \u00a0At each town, the canal was crossed by a\u00a0lift bridge. \u00a0I think the higher, fixed, bridges are later developments. These lift bridges were all similar in design and each had a
\nflight of steps at the ends. The steps permitted walking over the canal when the bridge was raised. During\u00a0the early days of the canal, each of the lift bridges was open for longer periods when a group of boats that locked through\u00a0together, traveled the length of the canal and the bridge, once opened, accommodated many boats.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Holley was an interesting\u00a0town with many similar style buildings, all built in the boom times of the Erie Canal.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed walking around the Holley park areas. \u00a0Much of the canal area is parkland today with about 500 miles of heritage trail available, mostly for free, for walking, camping and enjoying.<\/p>\n

When we see a person sleeping in a big city, our thoughts turn to undesirable people who we might want to avoid. \u00a0In this area, the folks are often hikers or bikers traveling the world of their dreams during summer vacation or after \"\"<\/a>retirement.<\/p>\n

One of the lovely parks we visited was\u00a0this small park in Holley, surrounded by a man-made spillway that helped control the water level in the Canal. \u00a0The town provided picnic tables, fish cleaning areas, benches, and an inviting clean expanse of grass to enjoy. \u00a0It was hard to move on and explore.<\/p>\n

S\"\"<\/a>am’s diner is a real find if you are looking for a living antique shop. \u00a0The place is old, clean, tasty, inexpensive and full of history. \u00a0You can easily envision the ghosts of the Erie Canal peak age sitting down to discuss traffic issues, disposal of all the mule droppings, and obtaining sufficient food to keep the animals happy and working hard. \u00a0Even the gum ball machine is a relic of ages gone by.\"20150616<\/p>\n

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Holley is a lovely town to visit. \u00a0They provide ample, free, docking along the canal wall and are unique among the places we visited in providing a map that describes the town’s attractions. \u00a0As with all photos, you may click on this map to see a larger image. The original canal route went from town … Continue reading Holley June 14 – 15, 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"parent":20,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/303"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}