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Astor: That was my first trip...in '33. I returned in '38 and of course went straight back to see dear old Madame Champlain at "Le Coq Rouge...
Astor (unsuspecting): Why yes. I remember especially because there was an absolutely gorgeous vintage that year. Madame Champlain was in ecstasies...
Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers. From Florida to the Great Lakes, mosquitoes almost ate them alive ("How cruelly they persecuted us," cried Champlain). In the brushless eastern forests, mammoth trees, standing almost trunk to trunk, rose to heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson...
...Niagara Falls to Brooklyn, that some bits & pieces of it are more than 100 years old, others barely four. In addition to its 29-school nucleus, S.U.N.Y. has absorbed two medical schools-the Long Island College of Medicine and the Syracuse University medical school-and two small postwar colleges, Champlain and Triple Cities. With last year's enrollment of 34,000, S.U.N.Y. had already become the second largest state university...
Death of Wolfe, on loan for the first time. The Mexican National Museum of History contributed scenes from the Mexican War, and from his private collection King George VI sent a print of a naval engagement on Lake Champlain...