{"id":876,"date":"2009-07-06T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/06\/the-seaway-at-50\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:21:00","slug":"the-seaway-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/06\/the-seaway-at-50\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seaway at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got special coverage coming this week on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. It was a huge project, that changed lives on both sides of the St. Lawrence River. Islands disappeared &#8212; villages, farms, homesteads, cemeteries &#8212; all under the water rising behind the big Moses Saunders power dam.  And it&#8217;s recent history&#8230;lots of those people whose lives were never the same are still alive.  My life wasn&#8217;t changed, but my grandmother, Pearl Fincham Vallance was born on Croil&#8217;s Island (now mostly underwater) and I remember driving from home near Glens Falls to Massena to catch a glimpse of the island as the river came up. Years later we visited my great aunt Grace on Wilson Hill, in a camp\/house that took the place of the house she lived in before it was flooded. <br \/>We&#8217;ll hear about the &#8220;Lost Villages&#8221; in two stories this week, Wednesday and Thursday.<br \/>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll hear about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/St-Lawrence-Seaway-Power-Project\/dp\/0815609132\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1\">the people who built<\/a> the massive locks and hydro dam. <br \/>Share your story, or your family&#8217;s, in the comment box. Or e-mail radio@ncpr.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got special coverage coming this week on the 50th anniversary of the opening of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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\/876"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}