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Moore attempts to warm this chilly view with a sense of tragedy. His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...
...contrary investors have annually trekked far from Wall Street's madding crowd to band together for a few days and offer one another encouragement and advice. Last week more than 300 gathered in Vergennes, Vt., for the Contrary Opinion Forum at a resort on the shore of Lake Champlain...
Street broker, Fraser draws his authority from the fortnightly Contrary Investor newsletter ($80 a year), which he publishes from his stone house overlooking Lake Champlain. In August 1981 he urged his 1,000 subscribers to buy Sears, whose stock had fallen to $16, from $62 nine years earlier. Most investors perceived the retailer to be in terrible shape, but Fraser believed its troubles would pass. Last week Sears shares closed...
...goose-necked creature sunning itself off the shore of Lake Champlain may look like an inflatable beach toy, but there are those who insist that Champ is a genuine sea monster. Amateur Photographer Sandra Mansi, for one. Four years ago, says Mansi, she snapped Champ with her Kodak Instamatic. To see if the photo had been doctored, it was sent to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center for close scrutiny. B. Roy Frieden, 44, professor of optical sciences, pronounced it see-worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand...
...many people are aware that Nessie, the serpentine monster that is said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, has an American cousin cruising the depths of Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York. Champ, as the lake monster is called, was first reported in 1609 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Since then there have been some 100 purported sightings of the serpent, which is said to measure anywhere from 10 ft. to 45 ft. and to have a horse-shaped head bearing two tiny horns. Over the centuries, Champ has managed to take care of himself quite...