In mid-October, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s schooner Lois McClure returns to the lake, concluding a four month journey to ports in Canada, on the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Lake Champlain Basin.
Ferrisburgh — In mid-October, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s schooner Lois McClure returns to the lake, concluding a four month journey to ports in Canada, on the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Lake Champlain Basin.
A welcome home reception will take place at Vergennes Falls Park on Friday Oct. 12, 3 – 4pm. Public Boarding of the Lois McClure will follow from 4 – 6 p.m. on Friday and on Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. T
he Friday reception will feature dignitaries from Vermont, New York and Canada who were instrumental in making the tour possible. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Aaron Annable, consul for public affairs of the consul general of canada in New England will speak. Historic exhibitions, music by the Lake Champlain Brass Quintet, and refreshments from local companies will round out this festive occasion.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica canal schooner Lois McClure will be anchored overlooking the place where Macdonough’s fleet was built and launched. Maritime artist Ernie Haas worked with LCMM archaeologists to create a painting that depicts the shipbuilding activity as it might have appeared in the spring of 1812.
The painting will be on view during the weekend.
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