The Continuing Work of Creating Change
By Susan Evans McClure, Executive Director Last June, I shared some of my thoughts on how Lake Champlain Maritime Museum could bring our skills as historians to bear to make …
Divesting from Plastic for Lake Champlain
By Elizabeth Lee, Director of Education and Interpretation As the Museum wraps up 2020, our priority as an organization keeps coming back to sustainability. Financial, programmatic, material, and ethical questions …
A Spirited Otter Creek Challenge Race!
On Saturday, October 31, we held our annual Otter Creek Challenge youth open-water rowing race at the Vergennes Basin on Otter Creek. All things aligned perfectly for this pandemic-era rowing …
After the 19th Amendment: Modern Movements for Women’s Rights
Over the past week we have been exploring the history of the fight for women’s suffrage in the Champlain Valley at 100 years. What about the legacy after the pivotal …
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New York and the Fight for Suffrage
For the past week, we have been exploring the history of Women’s Suffrage in the Champlain Valley at 100 years, the complexities of the movement, and what the fight was …
Vermont and the Fight for Suffrage
2020 marks an important election anniversary for the United States of America: it marks 100 years since women won the right to vote. That’s 25 presidential elections that most women …
Suffrage in the Champlain Valley: A Complex Movement
Women entered new political spheres in the 19th and early 20th centuries by advocating for social causes that were important to them, including abolition, temperance, and the fight for suffrage. …
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Women’s Suffrage in the Champlain Valley
(Top image credit: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C. Official program woman suffrage procession. Washington, D. C. March 3. Washington, 1913. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.20801600/.) 2020 marks …
James Wakefield Rescue Row 2020 Celebration
On October 3, 2020 we held our annual James Wakefield Rescue Row in Burlington Harbor. This youth rowing race is held annually in tribute to James Wakefield, a man who, …
Kayaking the Length of Lake Champlain: Teen Expeditions in 2020
This month, nineteen teenagers and two trip leaders have accomplished epic kayak expeditions, kayaking the length of Lake Champlain and reaching the Canadian border. An epic goal in a standard …
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