Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic example of civic self-defense, Burlington, Vt. (pop. 38,000), has now dealt the suburban mall still another blow. Overlooking Lake Champlain about 40 miles from the Canadian border, Burlington is an old port and mill town that has been enjoying an economic and architectural renaissance. Prestigious firms, such as IBM and Digital Equipment Corp., have moved into the area and built plants. The seedy waterfront is undergoing a face-lifting, and many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings. But Burlington's boom was threatened...
...After coffee and donuts in an awakening town we wove through New Hampshire and Vermont, colors blazing about us, a steady stream of roadside red breaking to reveal soft-colored hills, lone magnificent hardwoods and occasional white church steeples. We cut across New York state at the foot of Champlain and as we rose into the mountains the road narrowed and twisted; we had trouble taking the turns as our excitement grew...
...directions to the battle sites, brief accounts of what happened there two centuries ago with what each place looks like today. In greenest Vermont. Stember will, for example, send the tourist past a white farmhouse down a rutted dirt road and bring him to a desolate cove on Lake Champlain that has changed little since. Benedict Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall of 1776. In Manhattan, Stember can startle a reader with the intelligence that a field where Washington's raggedy men knelt to fire...
...said, "it will not be disagreeable to the Canadians." The goal of all this friendliness was not just to forestall any British march down the Hudson but also to bring Canada onto the American side as a "14th colony." Last week, as the ragged survivors retreated southward across Lake Champlain, it was clear that the whole plan had been a disastrous miscalculation...
...large contingent of the American forces was routed midway between Quebec and Montreal. After struggling to He aux Noix below St. John's, they began dying by the hundreds from smallpox and dysentery. Of that fine force, fewer than 3,000 men, now huddled at the foot of Champlain for the defense of Ticonderoga, are ready for combat. Late last week their command was changed again, for the fifth time since the fighting began, this time from General Horatio Gates back to General Schuyler...