Is it over in Sandwich where they have a display of how the CCC was made?

Those would be some cool pics, Saltheart - it is possible for you to scan them/post them online for us? I'ld love to see them. I could look at old black and white photographs and listem to people's stories forever. My wife's grandmother was born at the turn of the century in England (Italian descent) and she showed me her birth certificate and bunch of old pictures. Of course every one else just walked away from her because they had hear the story 1000 times. ;) I'm facinated by stuff like that. Wish I had paid more attention to my grandparents where they were alive. :( They didn't talk much coming over here and how tough life was back then. My father's family was too poor to eat rice so they would eat yams all the time. My mother loved yams so he would tote over a big sack when he come to visit her and he would cherish his bowl of rice. My mother use to buy yams and hide them when I was a kid and I thought they needed to be in dark places ...... LOL. It turned out my father would go ballistic when he found them!! He would yell and ask her WHY would you buy those things!! That never stopped mom from eating them. :) Time has passed and my father eats yams now - may be it is just comfort food and it reminds him of her (she passed away back in 1996). Sorry... I regress as usual. Getting a little teary eyed thinking about it. ;)

You ever see the old pics of them digging it ? laborers pushing wheelbarrels full of dirt .. Its is a ditch ... canal is the yuppy name..

I have been using the tunnel for years and call it "the tube". Am I supposed to be calling it the Cape Cod Tunnel?

Low Bridge
 

Low bridge ev'-ry bod-y down,
Low bridge for we're com-in to a town,
And you al-ways know your neighbor,
You'll always know your pal,
If you've ev-er navigated on the Er-ie ditch.

O.K. so I am not as funny as I think. But sitting where I am typing this I think I am friggin hilarious.

thats all that matters . I crack myself up every day . does anyone else think Im funny ? no but who cares !

I hate places with names too big to fit on a t-shirt, or places with three initial abbreviations - ruins the aesthetic of my stickers.

The "Canal" when it was a ditch.

I don't think I have the pics anymore (it was her father , not mine) but I'll look. These pics show a Ditch with no water at all.

Nice pics, anymore? I think I have seen the ones Salty is refering too. Ditch with no water.

Check out this link. It has alot of pictures. I also have a book about the history of the "Canal" that has some great constuction photos. The Cape Cod Canal by Robert H. Farson
http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recrea...hoto_index.htm
I think alot of them can be found in a museum in Sandwich. I have been in the area all my life and have had a boat in Wareham for 35 years and the first time I heard it refered to as the Ditch was a couple of years ago on one of the fishing sites. Never by locals. This is one of my favorite pictures.

I call it "The Canal"

Sorry guys but across the USA when you refer to "The Big Ditch" it is assumed you are speaking of the Mississippi River.

I'm quoting myself ;)