September
2006
September 2 11:00-2:00
pm
Fort Ticonderoga will host a book signing in the Log House Museum Store on
Saturday September 2 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm. The book signing will be by Phebe
Thorne, author of Camp Cooking in the Adirondacks: Easy Entertaining at The
Uplands. There is no admission charge to shop at Fort Ticonderoga’s Log
House Museum Store.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
 September 2-10
Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Festival.
http://battleofplattsburgh.com/2006.html
September 2- October 14
Lake Champlain Through the Lens: Juried Photography Exhibit. The Lake Champlain
Maritime Museum presents its 11th annual juried photography exhibit at the
Museum at Basin Harbor. A range of images inspired by Lake Champlain, the
vessels that ply its waters, or the mysteries beneath the waves are on display.
These photographs are taken by both professionals and amateurs and may include
black-and-white and/or color photographs, digital images, and photo collages.
Visitors to the exhibition can cast their votes for the "People’s Choice" award,
to be announced in late October.
More information.
September 3
Fort Chambly National Historic Site of Canada. The cedar roof shingles
craftsman. There’s more to making cedar shake (shingles) than first meets the
eye. As you watch and listen to this craftsman as he goes about fashioning this
important roofing material, you’ll also get an introduction into the story of
how traditional French houses underwent a series of adaptations to make them
better suited to the rigors of the Canadian climate.
More information.
 September 3 2:00 p.m.
Hike into history at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell on
Sunday, September 3, at 2:00 p.m. Archaeologist Allen Hathaway will lead the
tour. Visitors will get an in depth look at the trails and learn what was
happening at the site during the American Revolution. Hathaway, a very popular
guide, has been visiting the Mount for many years and has a wealth of knowledge
to share. Wear sturdy shoes and dress for the weather. Mount Independence is
located on Mount Independence Road, six miles west of the intersections of VT
Routes 22A and 73 near Orwell village. Carefully follow the signs. Regular
admission is $5.00 for adults and free for children under 15, and includes
access to all the trails and a visit to the air-conditioned visitor center with
its exciting exhibits. Mount Independence, a National Historic Landmark, is one
of the best-preserved Revolutionary War sites in America. Orwell, VT. Call (802)
948-2000 for more information.
Thursday, September 7
4:00 p.m.
Vermont Governor James Douglas will unveil the new official Lake Champlain
Quadricentennial logo at Burlington, Vermont's King Street Ferry Dock. This
event will signify the beginning of the multi-state, multi-country 2009
commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Lake Champlain. The event is a joint
effort of the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial Commission, Lake Champlain Basin
Program, Lake Champlain Byways, Big Heavy World Foundation and the Lake
Champlain Transportation Company.
Thursday, September 7 7:00
p.m.
Archaeologist John G. Crock, "Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Otter
Creek Drainage." Crock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of
Vermont and Director of the UVM Consulting Archaeology Program will highlight
preliminary findings from several newly identified precontact Native American
sites along Otter Creek and its tributaries. These include several sites dating
to the Late Archaic period, ca. 4,000-1,000 B.C. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
More information.
Thursday September 7, 2006
7:00-9:00 p.m
The Battle of Plattsburgh of Plattsburgh Association will be hosting an
auction at the Battle of Plattsburgh Interpretive Center. Bid on a wide variety
of items in both live and silent auctions. Enjoy music and appetizers at the
museum campus on the Old Air Force Base. Stroll through our recently expanded
facility and visit the newest exhibit, “A Call to Arms-Life of the 1812
Soldiers.” Proceeds from the auction will help fund expanded educational
programming and assist in the development of the BOPA Complex here on the Old
Base in Plattsburgh. Tickets for the auction will $8 for adults-$6 with Battle
of Plattsburgh Commemorative Weekend Button. For more information or to make
reservations call the Battle of Plattsburgh Association at 518-566-1814.
September 8-11
Tall ship Royaliste will be at Plattsburgh, New York for the Battle
of Plattsburgh Commemoration festivities. The Royaliste is a living
history interpretation/reenactment vessel. She is a 71' LOA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l
ketch refitted to specifications of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch.
More information-
http://www.theroyaliste.com/ and
http://www.privateerinc.org/ .
September 9-10
Revolutionary War Encampment Over 500 re-enactors on site depicting British,
German, Continental, and Native forces during the war for (and against) American
Independence. Battle reenactments each day beginning at 2pm.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
September 10 2:00 p.m.
Many American women took their first steps beyond the private sphere of home
by protesting the sin of slavery. Historian Beth Salerno will present her
research on these women at Rokeby Museum on Sunday, September 10 at 2 pm. In her
new books Sister Societies, she documents the ties of kinship and friendship
that drew women into more than 200 female antislavery societies, including
several in Vermont. Whether rural or urban, black or white, radical or
conservative, women began to find a public voice in antislavery organizing. Many
women moved from quiet activities such as sewing clothing for fugitive slaves to
raising money through "antislavery fairs" to signing petitions to speaking in
public. Society met their efforts with mobs, riots, and sharp debate. But these
grass roots efforts of ordinary women helped to bring freedom to millions of
enslaved African Americans - and redefined gender roles in the process.The
program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and
signing. Rokeby Museum is a 90-acre historic site and National Historic Landmark
designated for its Underground Railroad history. Rowland T. and Rachel Robinson
were radical abolitionists who sheltered many fugitive slaves on their home.
Route 7, Ferrisburgh, VT. For more information call 877-3406 or e-mail at
rokeby@adelphia.net
 September 11
A day of remembrance will be observed on Monday, September 11, at the
Hubbardton
Battlefield State Historic Site for those who wish to contemplate or honor
heroes from the past and present. The museum and facilities will be open free of
charge from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The site, with its beautiful open rolling
meadows and scenic mountain views, offers quiet and tranquility. The Hubbardton
Battlefield is the site of the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Vermont.
It is known as one of the best-preserved battlefields in the country and looks
much as it did the day of the battle—July 7, 1777. It is located on Monument
Hill Road 6 miles off VT Route 30 in Hubbardton or 7 miles off exit 5 on US
Route 4 in Castleton. Carefully follow the signs. For more information about the
Battlefield or this event, call (802) 273-2282. The site is open Wednesdays
through Sundays and Monday holidays from 9:30 to 5:00 through Columbus Day.
Regular admission is $2.00 for adults and free for children under 15.
September 14 Multiple locations and times
St. Anne's Shrine, Isle La Motte- 11:30 a.m.
Champlain Statue, Church Street, Champlain, New York- 1:30 p.m.
9 de L'eglise Street, Lacolle, P.Q.
Lake Champlain Communities Host First-Ever Interstate/International
Pictorial Stamp Cancellation. September 14, 2006 will be a historic
event for stamp collecting enthusiasts as communities in Vermont, New
York and Quebec combine their efforts on the first ever international
and interstate stamp cancellation. The International Samuel de Champlain
Stamp Cancellation Day will begin with a public ceremony at St.
Anne’s Shrine on Isle La Motte at 11:30 a.m. A second special
cancellation will be available at 1:30 p.m. at the Samuel de
Champlain statue on Church St. in Champlain, New York. The third
cancellation will be issued in Lacolle, Quebec at the post office
located at 9 de L’eglise St. Directions will be provided at St.
Anne’s Shrine to participants. According to the U.S. Postal
Service and Canada Post, this is believed to be the first time two
states and two countries have partnered to host a multi-station,
same-day cancellation event! The Isle La Motte public ceremony will
include a welcome by Vermont Governor James Douglas; Bruce Hyde, Vermont
Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing, and Chair of the Vermont
Quadricentennial Commission; Bill Howland, Manager of the Lake Champlain
Basin Program; Celine Paquette, Chair of the St. Anne’s Shrine Advisory
Board; and dignitaries the U.S. Postal Service. The Lake Champlain Basin
Program has created 100 limited-edition International Samuel de
Champlain Stamp Cancellation Day postal cachets for the occasion. The
cachets are only available at the St. Anne Shrine event. Isle La Motte
post office staff will be on site to sell the Champlain stamp and other
products. Refreshments will be served. The second postal cancellation
event begins at 1:30 p.m. in front of the Samuel de Champlain statue on
Church St. in Champlain, New York. Celine Paquette, Vice-Chair of the
Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission will welcome the
group and talk about efforts in New York for the 400th anniversary of
Champlain’s arrival to the lake. Brenda Munnik, the officer in charge of
the Champlain Post Office will talk to the group about stamp and
cancellation collections. On May 28, 2006, the U.S. Postal Service and
Canada Post jointly issued postage stamps and a souvenir sheets
commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1606 start of Champlain’s
exploration and survey of North America’s Atlantic Coast region. His
explorations included his arrival at Quebec in 1608 and at Lake
Champlain, in Isle La Motte, in 1609. Beginning on September 14 and for
30 days following, special pictorial stamp cancellations commemorating
the journeys of Samuel de Champlain will be available at post offices
Isle La Motte and Alburgh, Vermont; Champlain and Rouses Point, New
York; Lacolle, Quebec, Canada.
September 15-16
Crown Point State Historic Site Festival of Nations. Canada, France, Great
Britain, Native American Indian Tribes, United States. Elements of national
heritage, including music, crafts, food, dance, games, family activities,
clothing, folk life, customs and crowning of Miss Lake Champlain & Mr. Lake
Champlain. Co-Hosted by the Historic landmarks on both sides of Lake Champlain
Bridge- Crown Point State Historic Site & Chimney Point State Historic Site.
Admission: $3.00 age 12-61, $2.00 age 62 & up, $1.00 age 5-11. More information:
518-597-4666
September 15-18
Tall ship Royaliste will be at
Crown Point, New York. The Royaliste is a living history
interpretation/reenactment vessel. She is a 71' LOA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l
ketch refitted to specifications of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch.
More information-
http://www.theroyaliste.com/ and
http://www.privateerinc.org/ .
September 16 3:00 p.m.
Grand Opening of the Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve. Join the Lake
Champlain Land Trust, Isle La Motte Preservation Trust and the Lake Champlain
Islands Chamber of Commerce at the Grand Opening of the new Goodsell Ridge
Preserve. Tours of the fossil preserve will be available for all. Call
802-862-4150 or write landtrust@lclt.org
for more information.
September 16-17
250th Anniversary of the French & Indian War Commemoration. Lake George
Battlefield Park, Beach Rd., Lake George
Historical re-enactors, French and Indian War time period demonstrations of camp
life & battle re-enactments.
September 18-27
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's 1862 Canal Schooner Lois McClure will be
at St. Albans, Vermont as she tours the northern part of Lake Champlain.
More
information.
September 21 7:00 p.m.
The War of 1812 Burials. Research historian and archaeologist Kathleen Kenny
from the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program will present the
current research by UVM CAP on the War of 1812 soldier burials recently
discovered in Burlington, Vermont. A Vermont Archaeology Month program.
Hubbardton
Battlefield State Historic Site, Hubbardton, Vermont
September 22 7:00 p.m.
"Cornwallis Burgoyned" at Mount Independence. It was 225 years ago, in
1781, that British Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered after the
Battle of Yorktown in Virginia, the dramatic beginning of the end of the
American Revolution. Come to the Mount Independence State Historic Site in
Orwell, Vermont, on Friday, September 22, at 7:00 p.m. when English
actor-playwright Howard Burnham presents his dramatic program, “Cornwallis
Burgoyned.” The program, sponsored by the Mount Independence Coalition and
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, is free and open to the public.
Donations to the Coalition are appreciated. In this presentation Burnham
portrays Cornwallis, who ruefully regrets his American experiences and talks
about the dramatic British surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, four years
after British General John Burgoyne lost his Northern Campaign and surrendered
after the Battles of Saratoga. Burnham has been at Mount Independence the past
three years to give his highly acclaimed interpretations of British General John
Burgoyne and American General Horatio Gates. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating
is limited; first come first served. Mount Independence, one of Vermont’s
state-owned historic sites, is a National Historic Landmark and one of the
best-preserved Revolutionary War sites in America. It is located near the end of
Mount Independence Road, six miles west of the intersections of VT Routes 22A
and 73 in Orwell. Call 802-948-2000 for more information.
September 23-24
Third Annual Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution A two-day
seminar bringing scholars from throughout the U.S. to present on their latest
research. Space is limited for this event and advance reservations are required.
Call 518-585-2821 for further information.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
 September 23 1:00-2:00 pm
Fort Ticonderoga will host a book signing on Saturday, September 23 from
1:00 – 2:00 pm by five authors and speakers at the Seminar on the American
Revolution. The book signing will be held in the Fort Ticonderoga Log House
Museum Store. There is no admission charge for visiting the museum store, nor do
you need to be an attendee of the Seminar to have a book signed. Among those
signing their books on the American Revolution will be William Ahearn-
Muskets of the Revolution and the French & Indian War, Thomas Desjardin-Through
the Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March on Quebec 1775, Don Hagist-
A British Soldier’s Story: Roger Lamb’s Narrative of the American Revolution,
James Nelson- Benedict Arnold’s Navy, and Rich Strum, Director of
Interpretation and Education at Fort Ticonderoga will sign his book for middle
school readers, Causes of the American Revolution.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
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October 2006
October 2-5
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's 1862 Canal Schooner Lois McClure will be
at Grand Isle, Vermont as she tours the northern part of Lake Champlain.
More
information.
October 7-8
4th Annual War Encampment & Reenactment
of Carlton's 1780 Raid on Fort George. This living history event will feature
the reenactment of the Oct. 11, 1780 raid let by British Major Carlton upon Fort
George. Lake George Battlefield Park, Beach Rd., Lake George, New York
Sunday, October 8 2:00 p.m.
Meet Russell M. Lea, author of "A Hero and a Spy: The
Revolutionary War Correspondence of Benedict Arnold". Battlefield Visitor
Center, Saratoga National Historic Park, 648 Route 32, Stillwater, NY. Call
518-664-9821 x224 for information.
October 9
King's Garden Closes for the 2006 season at 4:00 p.m.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
October 9
Crown Point State Historic Site Museum closes for the season. Grounds are open
year-round.
Crown Point State Historic Site
October 10-18
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's 1862 Canal Schooner Lois McClure will be
at Plattsburgh, New York as she tours the northern part of Lake Champlain.
More
information. October
22
Fort Ticonderoga Closes of the 2006 season at 5:00 p.m.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
Friday and Saturday October 27 & 28, 2006
Battle of Plattsburgh Association's Haunted Haunts Tours of Plattsburgh,
NY
Experience first hand the murders, crimes, and unexplained events from beyond
the grave haunting us in the City of Plattsburgh to this day. The Battle of
Plattsburgh Association’s Second Annual Haunted Haunts Tours will take you on a
hair-raising journey to the darker side of Plattsburgh’s past, unveiling its
little-known history and exploring its hidden mysteries. With over 25 different
sites on the tour there is sure to be a bone-chilling story for everyone. Three
docent-led bus tours, each 1 ½ hours in length, will be offered on Friday &
Saturday, October 27 & 28, With tours at 4, 6, & 8 pm. All tours will depart
from the Battle of Plattsburgh Interpretive Center (31 Washington Rd). The
ticket price for this spine tingling event is $10/person. Reservations are
strongly recommended if you expect to have a ghost of a chance of participating
in this unique historical perspective. Only 15 seats available for each tour!
For more information or to make reservations, please call the Battle of
Plattsburgh Association at 518-566-1814. |
