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Lake Adventure Camps Museum Board of Directors
pp 4-5
LCMM is proud to announce a diversified group of new
Deeper Learning board members with legal, financial, nonprofit and museum
pp 6-7 expertise – who share interests ranging from sailing to history
to the arts. All are devoted advocates for the museum’s
mission. Please welcome Francine Bazluke, Bonnie Ferro, Sally
Fri, Peter McCoy, and Stuart Meyer.

LCMM in Burlington Mariti Chair Robert H. Beach, Jr. Sally Fri
Schooner Lois McClure Secretary Barney Bristow Anne Hansen
exhibit Treasurer Doug Griswold Peter McCoy
pp 8-9 Stuart Meyer
Special Events �O� PN����T��HP�E�� BURLINGTON WATERFRONT Francine Bazluke Heather Moore
Sean Dunphy Warren Rinehart
p 10 Bonnie Ferro Dana vanderHeyden

Special Exhibits Advisory Council
p 11
LCMM Advisory Council supports the Board of Directors in the
implementation of LCMM’s mission, vision and values. These
knowledgeable individuals have demonstrated significant
commitment to the Museum and are willing to engage others
to move the organization forward. Advisory Council members
also serve as ambassadors to LCMM’s extended community.

Outdoor Education Peter Burrows Darcey Hale
pp 12-13 William Cimonetti Sandy Jacobs
Patrick Robins
Maritime Research Ed Colodny Jan Rozendaal
Institute Galen Dow
p 14 William Gilbert Bill Truex
Frances Foster
Advancement
p 15 Museum Staff List

Calling All Volunteers Executive Director Mike Smiles
Deputy Director Erick L. Tichonuk
Want to make a difference? With so many programs, Director Emeritus, Senior Consultant Arthur B. Cohn
events, and projects, we have something to interest each Chief Financial Officer Susan Jones
Bookkeeper, Information Technology Specialist Rebekah Condon
person - we could use your help! Advancement Officer Maureen Wulfson
Contact: Volunteer Coordinator Elisa Nelson: Advancement Coordinator/Administrative Assistant Tammy Russell
[email protected]; (802) 475-2022. Come join the fun! Director of Collections, Community Relations Manager Eloise Beil
Site Manager, Special Events Coordinator Kris Jarrett
(on the cover top to bottom) 60 Minute Experience - blacksmithing; Lake Museum Ambassador Ethan Burke
Adventure Camp - Lake Ecology, Snorkeling with Shipwreck Discovery; Operations Assistant Lane Kessler
Community & Youth Rowing; Underwater Archaeology Field School. Gateway Store Manager Lisa Percival
Gateway Store Assistant Emily Tichonuk
2 Education Coordinator Samantha Williams
Director of Outdoor Education Nick Patch
Education Specialists/Boatbuilders Dale Henry, Sydney Foster,

Charlie Beyer, Ben Mayock
Ecology Programs Director Elizabeth Lee
History & Archaeology Programs Director Paige Brochu
Lake Adventure Camp Counselors Evan Karge, Valentina Rodriguez
Archaeological Director Christopher R. Sabick
Assistant Archaeological Director Sarah L. Tichonuk
Conservation Lab Technician Paul Willard Gates
Archaeological Diver Pierre A. LaRocque
Boatswain, Education Specialist Len Ruth
Boatbuilder, Ship’s Carpenter Kerry Batdorf
Volunteer Coordinator, Summer Camp Logistics Elisa Nelson
Special Projects Dean Percival

Notes from
THE QUARTERDECK

From the Executive Director Photo © Brett Simison

As I look to our role of stewarding the region’s rich cultural resources and
sharing with ever expanding audiences, I am honored to be joining you in
initiating this exciting new chapter in the Museum’s 30 year history. Our
innovative approach to scholarship, education, exhibits and programming
in many ways reflects the power of philanthropy, volunteerism, and
commitment to a shared vision.

As one example, drawing from our strength conducting original field work,
exploration, and research, the Museum is proud to host the month-long
Archaeology Field School where we provide valuable field and skills training
for the next generation of nautical archaeologists in partnership with Texas
A&M University and Institute of Nautical Archaeology.

Few museums can offer a fleet of iconic replica vessels, research vessels, J Michael Smiles, Executive Director

support boats, wooden rowing gigs, canoes and kayaks that support
programs for broad and diverse audiences. Combined with hands-on education, scholarship, and exhibits we shape our
understanding of Lake Champlain’s past, present, and future. I am amazed by the ripple effect of our oars in the water, working
as a team.

Our Museum this year offers you an array of new programs, interpretive exhibits, and hands-on activities - opportunities to enjoy
learning as much about one’s self and one’s own skills as about our rich submerged cultural heritage, ecology, and history of Lake
Champlain. This year we proudly announce programs that enable visitors and participants to “go deeper” in their experiences
with the Museum’s rich content and expertise:

• Our Museum Educators are ready to take you • Thanks to a new partnership with Burlington Parks,
on a “60-Minute Experience,” a fabulous new Recreation, and Waterfront, our exciting new exhibit,
way to learn a skill connected to our nation’s Maritime Burlington will provide a window into the region’s
traditional maritime crafts and trades (p 8). maritime heritage traditions. This inaugural “big top tent”
exhibit reflects the Museum’s commitment to sharing our
• Our new Lake Adventure Camps will welcome knowledge with new audiences in new ways (pp 6-7).
more than 100 campers to one-week
programs that offer hands-on experiential • Special exhibits at our campus this season include Great
adventures for young explorers (pp 4-5). Shipwrecks of New York’s Great Lakes; History in Miniature:
The Maritime Models of Bill Kassam; Parley and Protocol:
• Our newly acquired ROV – a sophisticated Abenaki Diplomacy Past and Present; and From Slavery
submersible remotely operative vehicle – will to Safety: the Underground Railroad on Lake Champlain
explore shipwrecks both in Vergennes and in where visitors can make new connections between our
Burlington, where adventurers can get up cultures, our communities, and our shared heritage (p 11).
close and personal with history (p 9).

Your experience with us is valuable and precious. We welcome your participation, your involvement, your support and your
feedback.

Sincerely,

PS: We have so much going on this season, at Basin Harbor, in Burlington, and out in the wider 3
community. Go Behind-the-scenes on Facebook, and Dive Deeper on our Blog: blog.lcmm.org.

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ofCALENDAR EVENTS lcmm.org

Lake AdventureNEW!
In conjunction with: Burlington, VT

Ages 4-6 Ages 10-12

Messing About in Boats - Eco-Sleuths
Half Day
Date: July 13-17 or July 27-31
Date: June 29-July 3 or July 20-24 Time & Location: 9:00am-3:30pm,
Time: Choose AM or PM Session: Burlington.
9:00-11:30am or 1:00-3:30pm Tuition: $325 ($295 LCMM Members &
Tuition: $160 ($140 LCMM Members & Burlington Residents)
Burlington Residents) Roll up your sleeves and join some expert
Come ready for some fun with boats! ecologists and mariners as we use our
We’ll explore what they’re made of, fleet of canoes and longboats to explore
how they move, what they’re used Lake Champlain. We’ll use snorkeling
for, why they float, how to build your equipment, underwater robots, nets,
own, and of course we’ll get on the water too. Plenty of hands-on and more, to get personal with the lake’s
activities to explore our favorite mode of transportation: boats! creatures. Learn more about how water
quality and new invading creatures are affecting our aquatic friends.
Champ Chasers - Half Day Our days will be spent on, under and next to Lake Champlain.

Date: June 22–26 or August 3–7 Shipwreck Discovery
Time & Location: Burlington, Choose AM or PM Session:
9:00-11:30am or 1:00-3:30pm Date: June 22-26
Tuition: $160 ($140 LCMM Members & Burlington Residents) Time & Location: 9:00am-3:30pm, Burlington.
Come ready to get muddy and wet as we explore the amazing natural Tuition: $325 ($295 LCMM Members & Burlington Residents)
world of Lake Champlain. You’ll see water insects that look like mini- Join LCMM’s professional underwater archaeologists as we explore
monsters, plants that live underwater, and use nets to catch and the lake’s shipwreck mysteries. We’ll teach you snorkeling so you can
release fish. Who knows, maybe we’ll even see Champ! see a piece of history for yourself. We’ll use some awesome high tech
underwater robots to go deeper and see some amazing shipwrecks!
Ages 7-9
Sponsor a Child's Camp! Join sponsors like Seventh
Slimy, Slippery and Scaly Generation to provide an amazing summer experience for a
child. Contact us for details on how you can help.
Date: July 6-10 or July 20-24
Time & Location: 9:00am-3:30pm, Burlington. Ages 13-16
Tuition: $325 ($295 LCMM Members & Burlington Residents)
There’ll be plenty of on-water time as we use our fleet of canoes to ROV Tech In conjunction with:
explore Lake Champlain. We’ll use snorkeling equipment, underwater
robots, nets, and more, to get up close and personal with the lake’s Date: July 27-31
creatures. Learn more about how water quality and new invading Time: 9:00am-3:30pm, Burlington.
creatures are affecting our aquatic friends. Our days will be spent Tuition: $350
on, under and next to Lake Champlain. COURSE FULL!Work together to equip a Remotely

Shipwreck Discovery Operated Vehicle (ROV) with accessories
and top-of-the-line navigation/guidance
Date: July 13-17 or August 3-7 software over the course of a fun-filled
Time & Location: 9:00am-3:30pm, week. Then launch it in Lake Champlain on
Burlington. a deep-water mission that you help design.
Tuition: $325 ($295 LCMM Members LCMM is proud to be partnering with
& Burlington Residents) Greensea Systems of Richmond, Vermont,
Join LCMM’s professional underwater underwater robotics experts.
archaeologists as we explore the lake’s
shipwreck mysteries. We’ll teach you Early Drop-off / Late Pick-up
snorkeling so you can see a piece of
history for yourself. We’ll use some Participants of any camp may be dropped off as early as 8am
awesome high tech underwater robots to go deeper and see some and picked up as late as 5pm. Supervision will be provided
amazing shipwrecks! during this time of reading and games.
Early Drop-off: $35/week ; Late Pick-up: $50/week
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Camps: 2 locations Need Shuttle Service
for our Basin Harbor Programs?
Basin Harbor, Vergennes, VT
Pickups in Burlington,
Shelburne, Vergennes.
Call for availability & pricing.

Ages 7-9 Ages 10-16 Introducing our Summer
Team!
Food, Fire and Shelter: Survivor Then Eco-Adventure
& Now Paige Brochu, History & Archaeology
Camp Youth Programs Instructor A UVM
Date: August 10-14 Date: June 29-July 2 graduate with a BA in Anthropology
Time & Location: 9:30-4:00, Basin Harbor. Time & Location: Basin and a minor in Biology, Paige has
Tuition: $325 ($305 LCMM Members) Harbor extensive field archaeology experience
Explore the basics of survival in our region Tuition: $300 ($285 in UVM's consulting archaeology
during the wild colonial era. Learn about what LCMM Members) program, specializing in GIS mapping.
technologies and resources they had at their Basin Harbor Club and Evan Karge, History & Archaeology
disposal and how they compare with today. LCMM team up to bring Counselor a UVM graduate, says,
Learn about planting and scavenging and how to you four days of maritime In conjunction "Traveling and diving around the world
prepare a fire for cooking. with: has given me a profound appreciation
fun. Plenty of on-water and for cultural difference, history, and
Ages 10-12 in-water activities including snorkeling, aquatic environments."
paddling, and aquatic critter discoveries. Register Valentina Rodriguez, Ecology Program
Heavy Metal Mania for this camp through Basin Harbor Club: camp@ Counselor, is a recent graduate in
Date: August 10-14 basinharbor.com. Evolutionary Biology from Harvard
University, with ten years' experience
Time & Location: 9:30- Ages 13-16 leading youth groups on water.
4:00, Basin Harbor Ethan Burke, Museum Ambassador,
Tuition: $325 ($305 Blacksmithing For Teens will provide support for Museum
LCMM Members) campus activities and be a liaison with
An introduction to Dates: July 11-12 or August 22-23 Basin Harbor Club guests.
smithing, casting and tin- Location: Basin Harbor Lane Kessler, Operations Assistant is
knocking. Want to play Tuition: $165 ($148 LCMM Members) an engineering student with a love of
with red hot metal and hit things really hard? Teens ages 14-17 will learn management of a Lake Champlain. “Growing up on the
This sampler gives a taste of the ancient arts of traditional blacksmiths forge and the techniques lake and working on the water all over
pounding iron, melting bronze and shaping sheet of shaping hot iron into useful or decorative New England, I was naturally attracted
copper. Work with your hands, get dirty, make items. No previous experience required. to LCMM’s diversity of programs,”
and take cool stuff. says Lane. “I enjoy being part of the
Champlain Discovery creative and constructive side of the
Food, Fire and Shelter: museum.”
Survivor Then & Now Date: June 22 – July 25 Sydney Foster, Champlain Discovery
Time & Location: Basin Harbor Trip Leader was a trip leader for the
Date: July 6-10 Tuition: $2,950. Financial Aid Available. UVM Outing Club, taking first year
Time & Location: 9:30-4, This exciting co-educational program will give students on Sea Kayaking TREKs on
Basin Harbor ten individuals the opportunity to build a 17’ Lake Champlain, developing their
Tuition: $350 ($330 LCMM sea kayak, then launch their newly built boats paddling skills and encouraging a
Members) and embark on a 10-day paddling and camping welcoming and inspiring environment.
Explore the basics of survival exploration of Lake Champlain. Students own the Barbara Bosworth & Mara Deckinga,
in our region during the kayak they build upon completion of the program. Conservation Lab Interns Barbara is a
wild colonial era. Learn what technologies and graduate student in the UVM historic
resources they had at their disposal and how preservation program, and Mara is
they compare with today. Learn about planting a graduate student in the Nautical
and scavenging and how to prepare a fire for Archaeology Program at Texas A&M
cooking. The camp culminates in an overnight University.
stay in a shelter you built, featuring a campfire,
s’mores, storytelling and songs! Day Camp: M - 5
W; Overnight: Thursday night

Info & Registration: lcmm.org

Limited spaces; check online for session availability.

Deeper 6 Minute
LEARNING Experience

60 Minute Experiences

New this season, every day you can add something
truly special to your visit. These amazing bite-
sized experiences allow you to try your hand at
something new. Haven't you always wanted to try
blacksmithing? How DO they tie those intricate
knots? Want to get a little exercise in a boat? These
60 to 90 minute mini-workshops and on-water
experiences complement your Museum visit and
give you something you can't get anywhere else.

Glassblowing (5 days) Longboat Rowing
Be mesmorized by glassblowing (Fridays & Sundays)
demonstrations for all ages; or select an This 1.5-hour experience takes you out on Lake Champlain in
age-appropriate make & take activity. one of the museum's stunning wooden longboats, built for
Ropework (Mondays) strength and stability. We'll chat about lake history and ecology,
Try your hand at ropework, and create work together as a team, and get some fresh air. Each boat holds
a Turk's Head lanyard/keychain that you take home. Ages 8+. 4-7 - a great experience for families and groups.
Copper Form Folding (Saturdays)
Try Blacksmithing Create a stunning ornament from copper or tin that you bring
(Tuesdays & Thursdays) home. Fold forming hardens the metal, and creates a strong yet
In this hour-long workshop, you'll learn how to light the elegant piece. Ages 10+.
blacksmith forge, basic blacksmithing techniques, and then you
make your own iron hook to take home. Ages 10+. Details: www.lcmm.org
Reservations: (802) 475-2022
Quest for Fire (Wednesdays)
This 40-minute demonstration of fire-building techniques takes Prices include museum admission.
you all the way from pre-contact friction methods and fire bows
to eighteenth century flint and steel. All ages. Alternative experiences available in inclement weather.

MetALWORKING Basic Bladesmithing Blacksmithing Projects Blacksmithing Guild
OPPORTUNITIES Two-day course to forge a Open to students with LCMM offers our
hidden tang knife blade. Go previous forging experience. blacksmithing facility to
In addition to LCMM's exceptional home with a complete knife. experienced blacksmiths
Blacksmithing Opportunities for youth Offered six times this season. Forging Hardware for individual use. Monthly
(pp 4-5) LCMM's forge will be lit for Basic Blacksmithing An emphasis on creating gatherings throughout the
these adult courses. This introductory workshop simple hardware for your year, including the May
Schedule, Pricing, and More: acquaints you with the basics doors, trunks, and cabinets. Hammer-In with a guest
lcmm.org/education/blacksmith.html of the coal forge, metallurgy, Forge Welding blacksmith.
and techniques. Focuses on the ancient art
of welding iron in the forge.

Discount Package (802) 475-2022

Back by popular demand, this package deal
includes Museum Admission, Lunch at the Red Mill
Restaurant, and a Lake Cruise (weather permitting).
Only $35! LCMM Members $29. Purchase your
tickets at the Museum Admissions Desk, or call
ahead (802) 475-2022.

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Champlain Discovery: LCMM was an incredibly important I feel grateful to have spent
Kayak Building & Camping for Teens cornerstone in my childhood. so much time immersed in
Whether it was volunteering in an environment dedicated to
This exciting co-educational program gives ten individuals, the MRI lab scraping rust off of a celebrating and deepening our
giant anchor, interning with Erick relationship with history and the
‘‘age 13–16, the opportunity to build a 17’ sea kayak, then
launch their newly built boats and embark on a 11-day at the summer camps I attended ’’natural world. Thank you!!
paddling and camping exploration of Lake Champlain. --Jamie Watkins
as an elementary schooler, or Champlain Discovery
Alumnus, Class of 2003
Students own the kayak they build upon completion of the participating in the amazing and

program. Info & Videos: www.lcmm.org. unique program of Champlain

Dates June 22 - July 25, 2015 Discovery; all of these experiences
Cost $2950. Scholarships available. were pivotal steps in my young
adult life, and they have certainly
shaped who I am today.

Shipwreck Tours Burlington

Still exploring shipwrecks - without getting wet! Saturday, July 4
Did you know that there are over 300 historic shipwrecks Saturday, July 18
at the bottom of Lake Champlain? Take a tour boat to Saturday, August 1
the site of one of these wooden wrecks and go for a Saturday, August 15
“dive” using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). This Saturday, August 29
robotic camera sends back real-time video to an on-
board monitor as we share the vessel’s dramatic story. Basin Harbor
Now in Burlington and Basin Harbor; book your seat at
scheduled times, or reserve the whole boat. Saturday, July 25
Saturday, August 8
Details & Pricing: Saturday, August 22
www.lcmm.org

(above) Now announcing the newest staff member
of the education department: an ROV! LCMM
Education Coordinator Samantha Williams takes
apart the unit under the guidance of Teledyne
SeaBotix trainer Rhonda Moniz. This new ROV
will delight participants in our Shipwrecks Tours
all season long. We are grateful to the Barnes
Foundation, Lake Champlain Basin Program,
International Paper, Oakland Foundation,
Greensea Systems, and Barney Bristow, for their
support of this program.

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Now
IN BURLINGTON

NEW: Maritime Burlington Exhibit Ma

June 20 - October 12, 2015 e

Opening June 20, LCMM presents a new interpretive exhibit, Maritime �O� PN����T��HP�E�� BURLINGTON
Burlington! In a festive setting at Perkins Pier on the Burlington waterfront,
the exhibit will serve as a porthole to history for visitors and area residents,
and a discovery resource for LCMM’s new Lake Adventure Camps. The
exhibit Maritime Burlington presents highlights from LCMM’s nautical
archaeology fieldwork and historical research that encourages exploration
and discovery “right where history happened.” Changing views of the
Burlington waterfront and the cargoes that shipped in and out of the
Champlain Valley will also include stories of former slaves for whom the
historic waterway served as a corridor to freedom. Donations accepted.
Thanks to Burlington Parks, Recreation and Waterfront, and Lake Champlain
Transportation Company.

June 20 - August 23 Burlington's Waterfront has changed decline in the early 1900s as people
Open Daily 10am - 5pm dramatically over the years, always turned away from the waterfront,
August 24 - October 12 pivotal to Lake Champlain military, by the end of the twentieth century,
Open Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm trade, and tourism. Burlington grew the waterfront changed once again
to become the third largest lumber into what is today a stunning tourist
port in American by 1868, home to destination, beautiful landscape, and
steamboats, canal boats, railroads, hub of cultural and environmental
and dozens of businesses. Although stewardship.
Burlington's waterfront experienced a

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ariti Painting by Ernie HaasWith so many vessels coming and going
over the years, the waters near Burlington
exhibit Harbor are also home to some extraordinary
shipwrecks. One of Lake Champlain's earliest
WATERFRONT steamboats Phoenix (broadside) burned in 1819
(bottom), claiming six lives. She now rests at
the bottom of Burlington
Harbor (right), open to
divers as an underwater
historic preserve.

More LCMM in Burlington:

Shipwreck Tours (pg 9)
Lake Adventure Camps (pp 5-6)

Burlington Maritime Festival
August 6-9, 2015

Where is Schooner Lois McClure?

Anyone out there own a wooden boat? If you do, you know from experience that wooden
boats are a lot of work. Schooner Lois McClure turns 11 this year, and it's time for some
repairs before she can be recertified for public boarding. So this fall she goes to dry dock
in Waterford, NY, thanks to support from our amazing friends at NYS Canal Corporation.
Until then, she will reside at the Burlington waterfront as a backdrop to our Lake Adventure
Camps, closed to the public until 2016.
Why Can’t I Step On Board?
Wooden vessels are sturdy, but they require constant maintenance. Every year, LCMM staff
and volunteers scrape and paint the hull and deck, caulk the seams, and do the annual chores
that keep the schooner “ship shape.” Lois McClure has worked hard, through all kinds of
weather, sharing waterways with massive and powerful vessels unknown to the original canal
schooners. The Ten Year Haul-Out is an important event for this working vessel. Professional
shipwrights have inspected her inside and out, noting any areas that need special attention
or restoration before she goes back into operation.

During the Canal Era (1820-1940), dozens of boat yards, like Ryan's Boatyard in Whitehall, NY (above)
built and repaired the thousands of canal boats that traveled along the region's waterways. Most of
these enterprises disappeared long ago. Lois McClure will travel for her 2015 restoration to New York
State Canal Corporation’s Drydock at Waterford, NY.

Special 2015
EVENTS

Rowing & Racing Events Abenaki Heritage Independence Day
Weekend - June 27-28 Commemoration July 4
From Community Rowing to the Lake
Champlain Challenge Race, to Youth The Native people at this event are Honoring the 1776 signing of the
Racing Events: View the Full Rowing experts in living indigenous arts and Declaration of Independence has special
Calendar on pg 13. traditions. They share activities and meaning for the Maritime Museum.
demonstrations including Native Lives were lost to create and defend our
Golf Challenge - May 30 Arts Marketplace, Firepit Cooking country in these local waters during the
Demonstrations, Eighteenth Century American Revolution. Join us for a cannon
Great Golf - Great Fun - Great Cause! Encampment, Storytelling & Community salute and a reading of that historic
LCMM's second Golf Challenge at Dancing, Circle of Courage Youth Dancers document.
Basin Harbor Club's stunning 18-hole (Saturday), and Abenaki Women's Singing
Championship Golf Course. Snacks along Group Voices of the Koas. Hosted by Rabble in Arms
the course, and the custom cocktail LCMM in partnership with the Vermont August 15-16
Benedict Arnold Palmer crafted by Whistle Commission on Native American Affairs.
Pig Whiskey! Awards banquet, prizes, and Opening at this event is the new exhibit Benedict Arnold's Gunboat Comes Alive!
more. Proceeds benefit LCMM Education Parley & Protocol: Abenaki Diplomacy Join the crew of Philadelphia II as we
Programs. Past & Present (pg 11). return to the roots of our Rabble in Arms
Reenactment. We explore life aboard a
Kids Pirate Festival Members' BBQ & gunboat of the American Revolution and
June 13-14 Fireworks - July 3 learn about her role in the pivotal Battle
of Valcour Island of 1776.
LCMM campus will be taken over by Bring your lawn chairs and Tactical demonstrations each day. Learn
the New England Brethren of Pirates, join us for an evening about military and camp life, open fire
Captain Jane Swallow, sailors, syrens, and of food, fun, and a cooking, blacksmithing, and more.
mutineers from all distant shores for this front row seat to Meet Patricia Hubert, author of the
family friendly swashbuckling good time! Basin Harbor Club's award-winning biography of Philip Ulmer,
Come in costume and enjoy exciting fireworks display. captain of 1776 gunboat Spitfire at the
pirate-themed activities, sing-alongs, We'll have a cookout, Battle of Valcour Island.
and make-and-take crafts for the whole cash bar (first beverage
family. Listen and sing along with the included with advance ticket purchase), September is
shanty stylings of Rockin' Ron the Friendly bucket prizes, lawn games, and the Archaeology Month
Pirate! fantastic music of the Bessette Quartet.
Build model Pirate Ship, visit the Pirate Rain date: July 5 Join us September 3 at a Reception &
Fleet on Lake Champlain, visit the Pirate $10/$15/$25 Youth/Member/Non-Member Open House to kick off the month-long
Camp to learn all about life on the high Tickets Online at www.lcmm.org celebration of the lake's submerged
seas, and join in the Great Pirate Tug-o- Or Call (802) 475-2022 cultural resources and the people who
War. Fun and treasure for all ages! preserve them and
make them accessible
to the public.

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Special
EXHIBITS

History in Miniature: The Great Shipwrecks of
Maritime Models of Bill Kissam NY's Great Lakes

On view through October 11, 2015 Traveling Exhibit on view May 30
For more than 25 years, model maker Bill Kissam through September 6, 2015
of Westport, NY has crafted intricately detailed Did you know New York State waters
scale replicas of Lake Champlain vessels, including hold as many as 10,000 shipwrecks?
steamboats, War of 1812 ships Saratoga and We are very excited to host this
Confiance, the Canadian lumber-transport “pinplat” traveling exhibit, produced by
Octave. This exhibit brings together models made Great Lakes Seaway Trail and New
for LCMM and private collections. A checklist York Sea Grant and designed in part
accompanying the exhibit will guide the visitor to by LCMM. It debuted at the 2014
other regional museums where Kissam’s work can Great New York State Fair where it
be seen, including models and dioramas of mining delighted thousands of fair-goers.
operations, quarries, historic houses and gardens. Highlights include shipwreck stories,
Opening Reception with the Artist: videos, and images from Lake
Saturday July 11, 4-7pm Champlain as well as Lake Ontario,
Lake Erie, the Finger Lakes, Lake George and the St. Lawrence River. Also
Calling all Photographers on view is a newly-built replica of the 1758 Radeau sunk in Lake George,
and a selection of artifacts and ship models from LCMM's collection.
LCMM's Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, Lake Archaeology Month Reception & Open House
Champlain Through The Lens, is now a 100% digital Thursday September 3, 4-7pm
online exhibit, with opportunities to participate four
times per year. Guest judges select outstanding Parley & Protocol: Abenaki Diplomacy, Past
images and qualified entries will be posted as an & Present
online exhibit (with watermark). The contest is now
open, anyone can enter, and it's free. On View June 28 through
Entry form and details: www.lcmm.org. October 11
Opening at Abenaki
Heritage Weekend, this
exhibit is being developed
for Ft. Necessity National
Battlefield, U. S. National Park Service site by the Elnu Abenaki Tribe
and the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association (VAAA). “Abenaki warriors
fought at Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War, so this is
an important way to connect our past and present,” explains exhibit
curator Vera Longtoe Sheehan, Director of the VAAA. Parley and
Protocol was inspired by the etiquette and procedures involved in treaty
making. “Those diplomatic procedures are still in use today,” explains
Elnu Sôgemô (Chief) Roger Longtoe Sheehan. “Upon gaining state
recognition, our chiefs presented the State of Vermont with a wampum
belt and wampum strands representing each tribe, together with pipes
and traditional ceremonial tobacco.” The exhibit presents pieces by
living Abenaki artists inspired by historic research and connections
to their ancestors. “These objects are replicas of ceremonial items,”
Sôgemô Longtoe adds, “They have never been brought to life and used
in ceremony.” “This exhibit is also important because it shows that
we know our history, we follow our customs, and we are still here.
Our Abenaki exhibit team created, selected, and are interpreting the
objects,” Vera Longtoe Sheehan concludes. The exhibit travels to Ft.
Necessity National Battlefield in 2016.

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Outdoor
EDUCATION

Educator Jim Doolan Honored at Champlain Longboats Launch Day

On Thursday May 21, Lake Champlain next year’s boat. Over the years, area high
Maritime Museum launched its newest school students working with LCMM staff
Champlain Longboat, Jimmy D. The 32’ pilot and volunteers have built 19 traditional
gig is named after Jim Doolan who 40 years wooden rowing boats. LCMM maintains
ago founded the Diversified Occupations an active fleet of 13 four- and six-oared
Program (D. O.), a public special education rowing gigs used annually by over 400
program based at the Hannaford Career youth in after-school rowing programs
Center in Middlebury, Vermont. Doolan has and regional racing events. The boats,
been involved in the building of fourteen a traditional English design originally
boats at LCMM by students from the D.O. used during the 1800s to row the pilot
program. “With his warmth and visionary or navigator to
approach to special education, Jim has sailing ships as
positively impacted the lives of so many they approached
area youth that we unanimously determined coastal waters, are
he deserved to have this boat named in his also used for adult
honor,” stated Nick Patch, LCMM’s Director community rowing
of Outdoor Education. Over 150 community and environmental
members attended the festive launch event. education programs.

Students and educators from the Diversified (top three) Students and staff hard at
Occupations Program have worked four work in LCMM's boatshop this winter.
days a week since January with LCMM staff Photos: Buzz Kuhns. (left) Jim Doolan sits
and volunteers to construct the new boat, in his namesake longboat "Jimmy D" on
starting from a pile of lumber. Along the its inaugural ride to launch (below).
way, they also have gone into the woods
with forester David Brynn to select trees
and helped mill and stack the lumber for

We are grateful to all the supporters of this program,
especially the Bay and Paul Foundation, Leo Cox Beach
Foundation, Peoples United Bank, Doug Vetter, Ruth
Moore, David & Linda Williams, and David Manthey.

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Row!Get Out and
www.lcmm.org/education/rowing.html
Community Rowing Club

Great physical workout in a beautiful setting, in wooden gigs built by students. What's
not to love?! LCMM's Adult Community Rowing Club rows every week May through
October. Teams also participate in regional rowing competitions. Not sure if it's right
for you? Just join us for a row!

Rowing for Racing Welcome Elizabeth Lee

With an emphasis on strength training, rowing technique, and endurance, this weekly Ecology Programs Director
rowing is more intense than the Community Rowing Club. Open to adults with prior
rowing experience. There will be several races in which rowers can participate, but LCMM is excited to welcome
racing is not a requirement. Elizabeth Lee to our team! Elizabeth
is a naturalist and outdoor guide
Racing Events Calendar with a long history of outdoor
teaching and recreation. From
From ice out to ice-in, youth and adult teams are out rowing, both locally and regionally. school groups to private guiding
Up-to-the-minute race information and results on LCMM's Website, Blog and trips, Elizabeth has coordinated
Facebook page. wildlife tracking programs, given
numerous presentations on natural
May 30 Spring Wave at LCMM history, and taught students a
curriculum on Patterns in Nature
July 11-12 Racing Weekend at LCMM. that she developed.
She writes the column Living with
Saturday St. Ayles Skiffie Sunday Lake Champlain Challenge Race Paddle Wilderness for the Plattsburgh Press
Racing St. Ayles Skiffs or row in this annual 3-mile race. Bring your Republican, and is an active member
compete in a light-hearted own boat or just watch the fun. Lunch hosted of the NYS Guides Association.
race on Lake Champlain. by Community Rowing Club folllowing the race. Elizabeth's expertise enhances
LCMM ecology offerings such as on-
October 10 James Wakefield Rescue Row in Burlington, VT. Youth rowing race in water field trips, B-WET Educator
commemoration of a heroic rescue on the Burlington Waterfront in 1876. Workshops (at left), and Lake
October TBD Head of the Weir in Hull, MA. Sponsored by Hull Lifesaving Museum. Adventure Camps (pp 4-5).
November 7 Otter Creek Challenge Race at Vergennes Basin, Vergennes, VT. “I’m excited to lead LCMM’s
November TBD Icebreaker Northeast Youth Open Water Rowing Championships ecology department as it grows,"
in Hull, MA. The best youth open-water rowers in New England, including teams says Elizabeth, "and look forward
from Lake Champlain, compete for the coveted "Key to the Harbor." to inspiring the next generation of
lake stewards through some amazing
year-round programming.”

Calling all Educators: Vermont Invasive Patroller
Watershed Science Workshops Workshop (VIP) - June 19

LCMM and NOAA have once again teamed up to bring Free workshop at LCMM to learn how
you a series of one-day trainings for educators wanting to identify and survey for
to offer their students hands-on experience in testing aquatic invasive species.
local waters and evaluating the health of watersheds Details & Registration
leading into Lake Champlain. Free of charge; registration at VT Watershed
required. Details at www.lcmm.org. Management Division's
website.
July 22, 2015 LaPlatte River (Shelburne, VT)
September 25, 2015 Boquet River (Willsboro, VT)
October 2, 2015 Missisquoi Bay (St. Albans, VT)

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Maritime
RESEARCH INSTITUTE

New Research on Benedict Arnold “John Andre was Sir Henry’s Chief of Staff, so the
treason correspondence is in these papers, with
This spring LCMM Director Emeritus and Senior all the information, insights, and innuendo. The
Consultant Arthur Cohn spent three months in experience vastly exceeded my expectations.”
“time travel” to the eighteenth century at the Cohn found the Clements Library staff “gracious,
William Clements Library, University of Michigan, empowering, and helpful.” Cohn’s research will
Ann Arbor, thanks to an Earhart Foundation lead to a publication, and will help to inform the
Research Fellowship. Cohn was examining the final management plan for the 1776 gunboat
Sir Henry Clinton papers to study the American Spitfire, discovered in 1997 at the bottom of Lake
Revolution and Benedict Arnold’s role. Champlain. Look for Art's article about Benedict
“The Fellowship allowed me to immerse myself in Arnold's role on Lake Champlain in the June issue
thousands of original manuscripts from the British of Quarto, William Clement's scholarly magazine.
headquarters: intelligence reports, maps, plans,
expectations, and outcomes,” Cohn exclaimed.

Underwater Archaeology Field School: Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Project

This June, graduate and undergraduate students from Texas A&M
University are joining LCMM archaeologists and dive leaders for a month-
long underwater survey of three nineteenth-century steamboats in
Shelburne Bay, Shelburne, Vermont. Last year the project focused on
four abandoned hulls: A. Williams, Winooski, Burlington and Whitehall.
This year students return to study the latter three steamers, all from the
1830s with a special focus on the earliest of the three, Winooski, built
in 1832. We will be using photogrammetry to study and document the
wreck with a team led by graduate student Kotaro Yamafune.

This project is led by Dr. Kevin Crisman, professor of nautical archaeology (left to right) Carrigan Miller and Dan Bishop
at Texas A&M University and director of the Center for Maritime help Kotaro Yamafune with the targets for the
Archaeology and Conservation (CMAC) and graduate student Carolyn photogrammetry setup. (Amber Passen)
Kennedy. This project is sponsored by CMAC, the Institute of Nautical
Archaeology (INA), the National Parks Service, the Vermont Division for What is Photogrammetry?
Historic Preservation, and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
Follow this summer's fieldwork on their Blog: Photogrammetry is a computerized process that
nauticalarch.org/blogs/shelburne-steamboat produces 3D models from photographs. A series
of control markers are placed on the shipwreck
and the site is systematically photographed. These
images are entered into a computer program which
calculates the position and orientation of each
photo.

Once the photographs are aligned, it is possible to
generate a dense point cloud and mesh model of the
shipwreck. With these georeferenced 3D models,
archaeologists can also produce photographic
plans of sites, take accurate measurements directly
from the 3D model, and import photogrammetric
data into other computerized technologies for
mapping and visualizing archaeological features.

We can't wait to see the results, Kotaro and team!

(above) Last year, PhD student Grace Tsai recorded a feature on
steamboat Whitehall.

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Our Community Museum is truly a “great” Welcome LCMM's Advancement Team
museum because of the quality
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members, and our donors can and the compelling impact of Advancement is the strategic process by which LCMM
do to empower understanding historic replica vessels such as advances mission-appropriate constituent relations and
of our region’s rich maritime our 1776 gunboat Philadelphia fundraising. The museum is creating a comprehensive
history and traditions. Thank II, and 1862 canal schooner Lois strategic fundraising plan to support expanding programs and
you for supporting outstanding McClure where we bring history scholarship that will serve broad new audiences.
scholarship, exhibits, and alive for tens of thousands of
education programs through people each year. Maureen Wulfson, Advancement Officer
your involvement and Preserving and sharing our
contributions. By making a region’s maritime traditions After years of managing Vermont
gift, joining as a member, or reflects your decision – and Dream Project, Inc., and extensive
participating in our programs that of a community of like- volunteer work throughout New
and visiting the Museum, you minded people – to strengthen England, Maureen Wulfson is pleased
are part of the community our Museum’s mission. Gifts of to join Lake Champlain Maritime
which recognizes the impact time, membership, and annual Museum as Advancement Officer.
of preserving our maritime support make possible the Maureen brings a unique skill set
heritage for future generations. array initiatives reflected in the and passion to support the mission
Your support builds our pages of this newsletter. of LCMM and help the organization
organizational capacity and We are deeply grateful for your move forward in an exciting direction
remains the backbone of loyalty and friendship. with growing communities, innovative
making a difference between a programs, and heightened energy.
“good” museum and a “great”
one. Lake Champlain Maritime Tammy Russell,

Aurelia Barnes Bristow Legacy Society Advancement Coordinator
Established & Administrative Assistant
A data-savvy professional executive
In March, LCMM’s Board of Directors assistant, Tammy enjoys taking on new
established the Aurelia Barnes Bristow challenges to accomplish tasks and
Legacy Society, to recognize individuals goals. She looks forward to helping the
who have included LCMM in their estate museum grow and prosper.
plans. We hope the Legacy Society will
inspire LCMM supporters to consider Our best wishes to Sarah Judd in her new position at Rice
how their long-range plans might match Memorial High School, and to Karen Gallott, at the Middlebury
with LCMM's aspirations for the future. office of the UVM Extension Service.

David Bartley The loss of Peter Morris (1943-2015) is especially poignant, as he had
a central role in shaping the Museum by designing many buildings
Katherine R. Carpenter that give the campus its visual identity. “Peter’s gifts as an architect
were tremendously important to the museum's ability to construct
In Memoriam William H. Forsyth wonderful buildings,” said Co-Founder Art Cohn. “And so often, his
Teresa S. Griswold services were generously donated.” Among Peter’s designs are the
Even as we mourn their Hoehl Family Education and Visitor Center known as the “Gateway”
loss, we celebrate their Sally Hoyler to LCMM (1996/2003), Nautical Archaeology Center (1995/1997), Key
lives and acknowledge their Pierre A. LaVallee to Liberty (1988/1999), Owen Education Center and Gallery (2001),
encouragement, generosity and Rinehart Blacksmithing Arts Center (2008), and most recently, the
commitment which has helped Peter Morris dramatic Hazelett Small Watercraft Center (2010). Peter will be
define the Lake Champlain Mary Morris missed, as a visionary, neighbor, and long-time supporter of LCMM.
Cindy Kaye Mills

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