CUDDEBACKVILLE—Standing beside the D&H Canal on a late May morning, Jane Sorensen Lord swats mayflies from her face as she talks about her efforts to repair the historic canal and fill it back up with water.
The mayflies, she said, are always out this time of year, but since the canal dried up in 2007, the dragonflies, which eat the mayflies, have decreased, and the mayflies have multiplied.
While the flies are annoying, what really irks Sorensen Lord is to see a piece of U.S. history disappearing before her eyes.
Hoag Basin, a place where canal boats would pull over to make repairs and let other boats pass on the D&H Canal in Cuddebackville on May 26, 2016. Holly Kellum/Epoch Times
