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Kids Pirate Festival @ Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Kids Pirate Festival @ Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Kids Pirate Festival @ Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will be taken over by the pirates of New England Brethren of Pirates, the one and only Captain Jane Swallow, sailors, syrens, and mutineers from all distant shores for this family friendly swashbuckling good time!

Kids Pirate Festival @ Lake Champlain Maritime Museumò

Come in costume and enjoy exciting pirate-themed activities, sing-alongs, and make-and-take crafts for the whole family. Listen and sing along with the shanty stylings of Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate!

Kids Pirate Festival @ Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Build model Pirate Ship, visit the Pirate Fleet on Lake Champlain, visit the Pirate Camp to learn all about life on the high seas, and join in the Great Pirate Tug-o-War.

4275 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes,  VT 05472
(802) 475-2022 www.lcmm.org

Cost: Adults -$12, Seniors – $11, Children 6-17 – $8 , Under 6 Free

Free parking

 

Ghosts and Legends of Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is located between New York’s majestic Adirondacks and Vermont’s famed Green Mountains. Yet despite the beauty of this region, it has been the site of dark and mysterious events; it is not surprising that some spirits linger in this otherwise tranquil place. Fort Ticonderoga saw some of early America’s bloodiest battles, and American, French and British ghosts still stand guard.
Champlain’s islands–Stave, Crab, Valcour and Garden–all host otherworldly inhabitants, and unidentified creatures and objects have made appearances on the water, in the sky and in the forests surrounding the lake.
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James Wakefield Rescue Row

The James Wakefield Rescue Row

This Saturday, October 10, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Champlain Longboats Program will hold its annual youth rowing race in Burlington – The James Wakefield Rescue Row. The race is named after James Wakefield who was responsible for the courageous rescue of the passengers and crew of canal schooner General Butler when the vessel crashed into the Burlington breakwater during a fierce winter gale on December 9, 1876. 

 

James Wakefield Rescue Row is this Saturday, October 10

The James Wakefield Rescue Row

Over 150 youths in 20 crews will participate, rowing 32- and 25-foot boats in a series of heats along the Burlington Waterfront. Local crews, as well as visiting crews – some travelling from as far as the coast of Maine will participate in the race that begins at Perkins Pier in Burlington.

 

The colorful boats used in this event were built at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s boat shop by Vermont High School and Middle School students and are used in after-school rowing programs by 160 students at nine area schools through mid-November.  

See these boats in action: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s website.


Ethan Allen: His Life and Times
is the story of one of Vermont’s
most famous citizens.Written by
Willard Sterne Randall this book
sheds a new light on one of
Vermont’s founding fathers.
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The Sinking of the General Butler

The Sinking of the General Butler – a video with Art Cohn

In this video Art Cohn, founding director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, tells the exciting story of the sinking of the General Butler, which sank in the Burlington harbor over a hundred years ago.

 

About the General Butler

The General Butler was built in 1862 in Essex, New York. The boat was named after Benjamin Butler, a Massachusetts lawyer and businessman. Who was also a general during the Civil War. General Butler fought in some important battles at the start of the war. The ship was a typical Lake Champlain sailing canal boat – designed to sail on the lake and when masts were removed and centerboard raised, could travel though the Champlain Canal.

She was under the command of her third owner, Captain William Montgomery of Isle La Motte on her last voyage on December 9, 1876 when a powerful winter gale struck while sailing up the lake. Upon approaching Burlington, the Butler‘s steering mechanism broke. The captain rigged a tiller bar to the steering post in an attempt to maneuver the ship around the breakwater. But the attempt was unsuccessful and the schooner crashed into the breakwater. The force of the water was so great that the craft was repeatedly lifted on top of the ice-covered stones. One by one each of the ship’s crew made the perilous jump onto the breakwater. The captain was the last to leave the ship which immediately sank into the 40’ of water where she now rests.

sinking of the General Butler

Sonar image of General Butler. from LCMM

After narrowly escaping death by drowning, the Butler‘s survivors now risked freezing to death on the breakwater. They all would have perished but for the heroic intervention of Burlington ship chandler James Wakefield and his son, who rowed out in a 14’ boat and took all five to safety. The Butler was declared a total loss. Artifacts from the General Butler are now on display at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Basin Harbor facility.

 

 

Lake Champlain

This 128-page softcover book features stunning historical images from the archives of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and other regional collections, and includes chapters on Patriotic Sites and Celebrations; Commerce in the Canal Era; The Age of Steam; Crossing Lake Champlain; Recreational Boating; Summer and Summer Folk; Hunting and Fishing; and Winter. ‘Lake Champlain’ tells the story of this historic, busy commercial corridor and recreational destination.

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Lake Champlain Maritime Museum starts rowing program in Champlain, NY

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum starts rowing program in Champlain, NYLake Champlain Maritime Museum starts rowing program in Champlain, NY

A rowing program for youth and adults on the Great Chazy River and Lake Champlain, launched by the Village of Champlain in partnership with Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, proved popular over the summer.

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