We broadcast live from ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington. Guests include David Hackett Fischer, author of Champlain’s Dream, and Mary Watzin, a lake researcher at UVM. And, we learn more about the indigenous celebration underway.
Fran Stoddard is taking part in the "Quadricentennial Voyage: In Search of Samuel de Champlain’s France," a ten-day journey for friends of Burlington City Arts to learn more about the routes of the French explorer in France.
Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Many Vermont real
estate professionals are hoping a drop in mortgage interest rates will spur a
wave of home buying in early spring.
Vermont’s neighbor to the north is celebrating a very big
birthday this year. Quebec
City is 400…
Vermont’s neighbor to the north is celebrating a very big
birthday this year. Quebec
City is 400. From Washington, Elizabeth Wynne Johnson has this story about the
17th Century French explorer who founded the city, and his legacy on both sides
of the US-Canada border.
A new biography of Samuel de Champlain casts a fresh light on the 17th century French voyager who founded Quebec and explored the lake that bears his name.
In 2009, Vermont is commemorating
the 400th anniversary of
Samuel de Champlain’s
voyage to the lake that is named after him. The native people who lived
around the lake called it "the Lake Between." And it’s the history of those people, the European
explorers, and their first 150 years together that film maker Caro Thompson
explores in a new documentary.
In
a few weeks, a reproduction of a 19th century boat that plied the
waters of Lake Champlain will set sail for Quebec City.
The
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica canal schooner, the Lois McClure, will visit
Quebec to help mark the city’s 400th anniversary.
As
VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, the festivities in Quebec also start the observation of a big anniversary in
the Champlain Valley.