{"id":1321,"date":"2009-11-18T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/18\/a-model-seaway\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:26:00","slug":"a-model-seaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/18\/a-model-seaway\/","title":{"rendered":"A model Seaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are not videographers, thankfully. The world would be visually poorer if we were.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re trying. Every once in awhile, we&#8217;re going to try our hand at video. It&#8217;ll be simple, down and dirty, but hey, something new is good.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, I was waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/14735\/seaway-chief-no-expansion-no-winter-navigation\">my interview with U.S. Seaway Administrator Terry Johnson<\/a>. (You can hear the second part of that tomorrow on The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour and All before Five.) He was running a little late.<\/p>\n<p>The lobby of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation offices in Massena has this really cool scale model of the St. Lawrence River around Massena. This is where Robert Moses&#8217; grand vision that inspired him to build the Seaway in the 1950s all comes together: 80 feet of vertical drop flooded to make head for a 50-turbine, international hydropower dam; 2 locks and a canal for ocean-going freighters to bypass the dam en route to the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean; great lanes of powerlines carrying electricity Downstate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to do a story about this scale model that was done in 1959, when the Seaway opened. (I may still: who made it? Dunno.) But it&#8217;s more of a visual thing. So I asked the Seaway&#8217;s Carol Fenton to give us a video tour (apologies about the overhead light reflections &#8211; again, I&#8217;m a beginner). Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"560\" width=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ypu5SwyzRDw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ypu5SwyzRDw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"255\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not videographers, thankfully. The world would be visually poorer if we were. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}