Focus on the much heralded digital information age often keeps us from appreciating the equally transformative advances that have taken place in transportation over the past 200 years. We have moved from a society where people and goods stayed primarily within a very small radius to a culture where overnight deliveries of goods from China and a world-traveled population have become givens in Western nations. This film tracks the history of transportation in New York State, and chronicles a natural corridor running along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers that have been main thoroughfares for Native Americans thousands of years ago and for Western culture today.
