Was it as cool as playing tennis with Venus (if you can characterize my on-court performance relative to hers as “playing tennis”)? And I was amazed as we motored across the state, lock by lock through the Erie Canal, a waterway that I previously knew of only from middle school geography class. Yes, I’m a little obsessed with the Erie Canal — an outcome to reporting this story that I never anticipated. Because so much of my article about Geraldo Rivera needed to be about Geraldo Rivera, my cutting room floor is covered with details about the Canal. The purpose was to allow for the transport of goods and agriculture back and forth to the Midwest.

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Persons: Geraldo Rivera, DeWitt Clinton’s, Geraldo, let’s, Clinton Organizations: Gov Locations: Manhattan, Hudson, New York, Erie, Aren’t, Rome, Lake, Buffalo, Albany