Edited by Russell P. Bellico. Preface and Postscript by Arthur B. Cohn. Transcription and Index by Barbara B. Bartley. Softbound, 336 pages, 7" x 10". Bartley, owner of three Lake Champlain canal boats, kept a fascinating day-to-day journal of his life on the canals and waterways of the Northeast. From dramatic tales of near sinkings during gales to descriptions of the lives of ordinary people. He witnessed history in the making; from the Civil War, the first electric lights and telephones to the blizzard of 1888. An intimate portrait of the life of a canal boat family crisscrossing America during a period of extrordinary change.