<p><span class="deck">All along its 360-mile route, towns to which the canal gave birth are looking to its powerful ghost for economic revival.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">How a debt-ridden banana republic became the greatest economic engine the world has ever known</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A bold dream to connect the Hudson to the Great Lakes by canal created a transportation revolution.</span></p>
