March 24, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray



802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: March 24, 2003

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - On Friday,

April 4-12:30 p.m.-Room 219, Bicentennial Hall, Bicentennial Way off College

Street (Route 125)

-Lecture on “Benedict

Arnold, Lake Champlain and Other Stories” by Art Cohn, executive

director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Cohn will present a review

of the significant activities that took place throughout the Champlain

Valley during the American Revolution and the archaeological legacy that

has been left behind. He will focus in particular on the discovery of

the Revolutionary War gunboat Spitfire and the current efforts to develop

a management strategy for its long-term preservation.

-Free

-For more information, contact Trish Dougherty of the Middlebury College

Geology Department at 802-443-5970 or trish@middlebury.edu.