The erie canal by peter spier5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the later story, the village has grown, but the same church, windmill, and lighthouse remain (though the latter bristles with communications gear) even the rabbits that peep from behind a dune are the same. The incredibly numerous, often humorous minutia in Spier's deceptively casual pictures contrast the periods in fascinating detail. In parallel stories set 300 years apart, a Dutch boy spots a ship in distress and raises the alarm each time, the boy's father is skipper of the volunteer rescue crew, but only in the 20th century is the boy allowed to go along. Spier's love of history again combines with his love of transport ( The Erie Canal, 1970, among many), now in a fictionalization of the development of the Royal Netherlands Rescue Society (KNRM). ![]()
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