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Ancient Waters. Vermont's Lake Champlain is noting its quadcentennial. It's been 400 years since French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who charted the St. Lawrence River and founded Quebec City, hit Champlain's shores. There will be tours of the shipwrecks at the bottom of the lake, along with fairs and arts festivals around the lake through the rest of the year...
...glorious successes and humiliating defeats: American frigates beat British ships; Detroit fell to the enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
...mainstream. Each week pro fishermen aboard boats that resemble floating billboards--welcome to BASSCAR--seek out big fish and big bucks. There are now four separate bass tours and a fifth for walleye that began this year. At this year's championship, to be held on Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, N.Y., the winner will net $250,000. Says Irwin: "I'm sitting here feeling pretty good...
...million to protect Revolutionary War boats at the bottom of Lake Champlain from invading zebra mussels...
...LAKE CHAMPLAIN Congress creates a new Great Lake. Next up: making pigs...