EVENTS in Canals in the Connecticut River Valley – this project is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Projects and Festivals
Holyoke Canal Tour (Holyoke) – a bus tour – Saturday May 17 2025 from 1 to 4 PM – first hour will be a walking tour and then two hours on the bus – funded through a grant from the Tourism Advisory Board of Holyoke – sign up at EVENTBRITE the last week of April
The Six Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River – Saturday May 31 2025 from 2 to 3 PM – presentation in Turners Falls of Montague at the Great Falls Discovery Center – held in the Great Hall – Learn about the canals that allowed navigation from Long Island Sound to Lebanon New Hampshire.
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour (Holyoke) – a Saturday June 7 2025 tour in the afternoon – meet at Race Street – part of the Holyoke Paper Festival
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour (Holyoke) – a Saturday June 21 2025 from 10 AM to noontime – meet at the Dwight Street side of Holyoke Heritage State Park – be ready to walk 2.5 miles total along the first and second level canals – 11th annual – Register at EVENTBRITE in May 2025. – sign up at EVENTBRITE starting the first of June
The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River – (presentation in Ludlow at the Hubbard Memorial Library) on Thursday June 26 2025 at 6 PM
The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River – (presentation in Wilbraham at the Wilbraham Public Library) on Monday June 30 2025 at 6 PM
Canals in the Connecticut River Valley – presentation Wednesday August 6 2025 from 6 to 7 PM in the Community Room of the Forbes Library of Northampton – learn about power, navigational, municipal, and irrigation canals in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts
Chicopee Center Canal (Chicopee) – Saturday August 30 2025 from 10 AM to noontime – meet at the Chicopee Public Library – be ready to walk 2 miles – sign up at EVENTBRITE starting in the first week of August
The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River – (presentation in Springfield at the Indian Orchard Branch Library) on Wednesday September 3 2025 at 6 PM
The Springfield Blanket Company – part of series called A Mill in Holyoke through Time (a Holyoke presentation)
Ludlow Canal – (Ludlow)
Indian Orchard Canal (Springfield)
The Power Canals of Northampton
earlier in the series:
The Six Power Canals on the Chicopee River – presentation at the Chicopee Public Library
A Mill in Holyoke through Time – the Skinner Silk Mill
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour
South Hadley Canal – presentation