Anyone who grew up in upstate New York probably knows the Erie Canal song. It’s a ditty about a mule named Sal, written more than century ago, in a tribute to the days when barges with lumber, coal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While much of the infrastructure of the Erie Canal era is preserved and documented, the lifeblood of the canal — the mules and ...

Last month, in response to an article on the Children’s Museum, I casually offered that any design should include a stable for a mule named Sal, which could be a great petting zoo feature of the ...

As part of “Mule’s Passage,” artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney are paddling six hours a day and camping for five weeks.