NYS Marine Tugs at Work

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

10:00 AM

Presented by Captain Rob Goldman. Captain Goldman is the principal owner of New York State Marine Highway Transportation LLC. Born in Philadelphia, attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and currently resides in Troy NY.

Captain Goldman along with his partners Michelle Hayes and Tim Dufel started NYS Marine in 1991 with one tug.

Capt Goldman’s primary focus is business development. During his tenure at NYS Marine the fleet has grown to include 9 Tugboats ranging from 265 hp to 2500 hp. Four of which have elevating wheelhouses facilitating travel on the entire NYS Canal System.

NYS Marine services include transportation of; oversized/overweight project cargo; bulk aggregates into the NY/NJ and CT metropolitan markets in support of concrete and asphalt paving production; ship assist and contractor support.

NYS Marine typically transports over one million short tons of bulk aggregates per annum and is strategically poised to step up services in support of future anticipated infrastructure projects.

Finding a Future for the Day Peckinpaugh by Looking at its Past

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

2:00 PM

Presented by Craig Williams. Williams retired in 2014 as  senior historian at the New York State Museum in Albany, after more than thirty years of service.  At the Museum, he helped lead efforts to document and preserve artifacts from the Willard Psychiatric Center, resulting in the much-acclaimed 2004 exhibition "Lost Cases, Recovered Lives - Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic".  He coordinated the Museum's curatorial team at the World Trade Center site after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The largest historic artifact that he ever collected was the 1921 canal motorship, the "Day Peckinpaugh".  This nearly three-hundred-foot-long vessel was headed in 2005 for a scrapyard near Erie, Pennsylvania. The "Peckinpaugh" was converted to a mobile exhibition gallery for 2009 Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, traveling between Plattsburgh and New York City.

From 1978 to 1983 he was the director of the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, now The History Center in Tompkins County.  He was the curator at the Erie Canal Museum from 1976 through 1977.

Williams will provide an illustrated presentation on the history of this historic 1921 canal motorship and how it can still serve to preserve the legacy and appreciation of New York's Erie Canal.

Sunday, September 12th, 2021

11:00 AM

Presented by Duncan Hay, historian of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor