The Definitive Solution to the Upstate NY Question

Eerie canal’s bicentennial is this year.
Twas big doins when we had “The Wedding of the Waters” in Clinton’s Ditch.
The rest is history,
Volunteers do amazing work at this place in Camillus ( @jamesdeluxe ).
Ya can bike along side it from Albany to Buffalo and kayak on it on the rebuilt aqueduct over non mile creek.
 
This dude’s channel goes briefly into the high points of history of places in The UpState (some other NY places to boot).
They’re brief but well done. Some comments are interesting.
 
Big Moose station at over 2000 feet is said to be the highest train station east of the Mississippi.
 
No joke, growing up western Suffolk County folks all said that upstate started at the GW. There is a big world out there. My mind was blown as a teenager when I realized Binghamton is in the 'Southern' Tier.
Hurricane Agnes came to The Southern Tier of NYS & Northern Tier of Pa. towards the end of the spring of ’72. We’ve been making pitstops in the area since I was a little kid on our drives to and from Western Pa. This year folks made a documentary of the flood.
Twas a big tragedy and left a mess. Folks have subsequently built some big-ass dams for flood control and recreations.
 
I used to work at an agency that regulated water companies. The group that was responsible for Lawn Guyland companies was known as the WAWddah Division and the Upstate group was the WhattERR Division. Maybe that's the definitive answer.

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Whatdoya know about OCWA?
Onondaga County Water Authority.
Pronounced “aqua”
Big water main break affecting a lot of folks in The UpState.
Just in time for The Holidays.

 
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