Collection
Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
Articles and Essays
Timeline
A timeline of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the life of Captain Nye.
An Informant in Search of a Collector: Captain Pearl R. Nye of Ohio
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center – Archive of American Folk Song Films Collection, AFC 1990/017. Captain Nye often wrote that he had lived beyond his time: That he belonged back in the late 19th century when "The Silver Ribbon," as he sometimes called it, was still economically feasible and the Canal was a way of life that, at least in retrospect, he found...