Hank and George are back in Easton and ready to immerse schoolchildren and the general public in the bygone era of canal boat travel. The Percheron mules -- their mothers were Percheron mares and ...

COLFAX — Harvest time in Eastern Washington usually brings out tractors, trucks and other modern machinery as farmers bring in their crops. But on one parcel of farmland, plowing, planting and ...

On a recent visit to their quarters - aka stables - at the Hugh Moore Park’s National Canal Museum, Hank and George seemed mostly impassive. One did, however, offer a neigh and a grunt now and then, ...

Mules were the preferred animal to pull Erie Canal boats because the combination of their donkey and horse parents gave them special assets. Few people are as familiar with the fine lines between ...