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October 16, 2010
DAR Award presented to 'Champlain' filmmaker
Filmmaker Caro Thompson, Elizabeth Bicknell of the DAR Seth Warner Chapter in Vergennes, and Diane Kreis, a DAR Vermont State Regent. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) has awarded filmmaker Caro Thompson of Walden, Vt., its History Medal for her documentary “Champlain: The Lake Between”. The film, which premiered on Vermont Public Television as part of the Champlain Quadricentennial, explores the diplomacy and trade between Native nations and Europeans that flourished in the region during the 17th and 18th centuries. It details how Frenchman Samuel de Champlain arrived in what became known as the Champlain Valley in 1609 and changed the course
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Basin Harbor to hold Oktoberfest Oktoberfest Celebration at Basin Harbor Resort will be held Oct. 24-25 at Basin Harbor Resort in Vergennes. Friday evening events include a complimentary Cabot cheese and Vermont beer tasting at the Red Mill starting at 5 p.m. Enjoy dinner at the Red Mill including a host of Oktoberfest classics. At dusk, Basin Harbor will host a bonfire and s’mores. Saturday evening events include music and food. Family activities start at 4 p.m. A special feature will be Dux the Balloon Man, showcasing a brand new
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Views of the Ferrisburgh Solar Farm now under construction on the Ferrisburgh-Vergennes municipal line. The 1-megawatt solar array will be the largest facility of its kind north of New Jersey. Photos by Lou Varricchio
By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Vermont’s largest solar-electric array, and the largest station of its kind north of New Jersey, will
start generating electricity from sunlight sometime in early December. Christened the Ferrisburgh Solar Farm, the 15-acre energy station—located on the west side of U.S. Route 7 adjacent to
the VUHS athletic fields—will “harvest” 1-megawatt of electricity from the Sun that will power the equivalent of nearly 200 homes. The photovoltaic electricity generated will be fed, via elec-
trical inverter, to Green Mountain Power and the power grid. Built and maintained by Ferrisburgh Solar Farm, LLC—a new
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The Hominoid Gang: Behind the scenes in the search for Bigfoot By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Part 1: Editor’s note: This part of occasional series about Bigfoot and Champ sightings in Vermont and New York. In 1991 a popular science book, titled “The Hominid Gang: Behind the Scenes in the Search for Human Origins” by Delta Willis, hit the international bestseller lists. The book
told the story of paleoanthropologists searching for fossil “ape men”, the ancestors of humans, in Africa, Europe and Asia. The term “Hominid Gang” has been used endearingly ever since; it now describes the dedicated paleodetectives that search for humanity’s prehistoric past. This story borrows Willis’ book title, with a slight modification, to tell a North Country story of the search for a strange hominoid long thought
extinct—you may know the creature as the elusive
See BIGFOOT, page 14 Right: Northern Sasquatch Research Society members Frank Siecienski, of Hubbardton, Brian Gosselin—an eyewitness to the creature—of Whitehall, Cliff South, South Glens Falls, and Bill Brann of Glens Falls stand behind plaster casts of Bigfoot prints found around the region. Photo by Lou Varricchio
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