Many Voices: Building Erie, the Canal That Changed America by Laurie Lawlor table setting -- Chapter 11

-- Chapter 11

The first ever two-time Caldecott Medal winner

She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and was a recipient of a 2023 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award

and to change this

which she wrote with her father

Many Voices: Building Erie, the Canal That Changed America by Laurie Lawlor table setting -- Chapter 11"The Nation's First Superhighway" existed before the spread of cars or even railroads! This immersive photo book ferries readers through the past and present of the Erie Canal, from impossible idea to groundbreaking reality. In the twenty first century, it's hard to imagine a canal as cutting edge technology. Yet even to the most scientifically minded, the Erie Canal once seemed an unachievable dream. Thomas Jefferson himself called it "nothing short