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...ordinary little girl. The daughter of Multimillionaire Sugar Refiner Henry O. Havemeyer, she was mar ried in 1910 to J. Watson Webb, a polo-playing great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Webb eventually inherited a house and spacious tract of land by the verdant Vermont shores of Lake Champlain. It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses - and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America. In 1947, Mrs. Webb bought eight acres of land near the estate to create the Shelburne Museum as a home...
...miles from Cape Spear, Nfld., to Mount St. Elias in the Yukon, and the people who inhabit Canada's sweeping domain are as varied as the landscape. First to come in large numbers were the French, in the footsteps of Explorer Samuel de Champlain; they still make up nearly one-third of the population and live chiefly in Quebec. British merchants, traders and settlers followed after Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons...
...Manchester, N.H., it was Viet Nam. The U.S. will stop bombing North Viet Nam, he said, if Hanoi quits sending troops south. But it is "the men in Hanoi," he added, "who hold the passkey to peace." At Battery Park in Burlington, Vt, with the crystal waters of Lake Champlain for a backdrop, his subject was conservation...
...CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., at the University of Vermont. Comedy of Errors, Hamlet and Henry VI, Part 1 will run through Sept...
...There is a Mallett's Bay on northern Lake Champlain, only five miles from Winooski, as well as a Mallett's Creek and Mallett's Head, but they all appear to have been named for one Captain Stephen Mallet, a French recluse who died alone and penniless in the area in the 1790s...