This week, as part of VPR’s special Champlain 400 programming, commentator Mike Martin is looking through the "Eyes of Champlain." Today, he considers Champlain’s attitudes about torture and the humane treatment of prisoners.
This week, as part of VPR’s special Champlain 400 programming, commentator Mike Martin is looking through the "Eyes of Champlain." On Wednesday, he considers Champlain’s views about the various cultures he encountered in the New World.
This week, as part of VPR’s special Champlain 400 programming, commentator Mike Martin is looking through the "Eyes of Champlain." Today, he considers the importance of religion in Champlain’s life and work.
As part of VPR’s special Champlain 400 programming, commentator Mike Martin is looking through the "Eyes of Champlain" all this week. Today, he considers Champlain and The French Connection.
Celebrate the 400-year wealth of music from the Lake Champlain region
with guests including Vermont songcatcher Deb Flanders, French-Canadian fiddler Lisa Ornstein and guitarist Andre
Marchand, and singer/songwriter/farmer Alan Greenleaf.
Celebrations
for America’s Independence today are intermingled with international festivities under way
in Vermont’s largest city. Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven says the events commemorating
the arrival of Samuel de Champlain 400 years ago offer an opportunity to
creatively examine the history and culture that shaped the Champlain Valley we know it today.
Mary Watsin of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources talks with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about changes in Lake Champlain over the last 400 years.
Filmmaker Jay
Craven, producer of the Burlington International Waterfront Festival,
which begins today-says for this celebration, everyone connected in any way to
Champlain will be part of the festivities.
After tourism and recreation became firmly established in the region, a new appreciation grew for Lake Champlain’s beauty and natural resources. Today, we explore how people are honoring the lake’s heritage and preserving it for future generations.