Did You Know? Ticonderoga Part 5: The Ticonderoga in Winter
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Did You Know? Ticonderoga Part 5: The Ticonderoga in Winter

The VT Folklife Archive is full of amazing first-person accounts of everyday life in Vermont and New England–past and present. In this feature, we share these stories with you.

Well, last month we thought we were concluding our four-part series on the Ticonderoga, but there were just too many good stories about the Ti left untold. So this month with cold weather setting in here in Vermont, we're adding one more set of stories about the Ticonderoga in winter–a time when the work changed to fit the needs of the season.

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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 4: Life at Shelburne Museum
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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 4: Life at Shelburne Museum

This month, we continue with the fourth and final article in our four-part series on the steamship Ticonderoga. In this month's article, we hear recollections from Lynn Bottom–a former captain on the Hudson River Dayline, but with a long history with Lake Champlain–about how the Ti was moved from the lake to its current location on land at the museum. Then we hear from Chip Stulin, the project manager who oversaw the restoration of the Ti in the 1990s. Both are recorded in interviews with VT Folklife founder Jane Beck in the mid 1990's.

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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 3: Favorite Stories
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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 3: Favorite Stories

Vermont Folklife is proud to have a collection of interviews of many of the people who lived and worked on the Steamboat Ticonderoga during its 47-year life on Lake Champlain between 1906 and 1953. Running a large steamship required finely-tuned systems, and many of the interviewees talk about these systems, which they used to operate the ship. This month we feature the voices of Jerry Aske, Dick Derry, and Dick Adams, recorded in interviews with VT Folklife founder Jane Beck in the late 1990s.

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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 2: “Pulling the Fires” and other work onboard
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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Part 2: “Pulling the Fires” and other work onboard

Vermont Folklife is proud to have a collection of interviews of many of the people who lived and worked on the Steamboat Ticonderoga during its 47-year life on Lake Champlain between 1906 and 1953. Running a large steamship required finely-tuned systems, and many of the interviewees talk about these systems, which they used to operate the ship. This month we feature the voices of Jerry Aske, Dick Derry, and Dick Adams, recorded in interviews with VT Folklife founder Jane Beck in the late 1990s.

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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Steamship Part 1: Teenage Deckhands
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Did You Know? - Ticonderoga Steamship Part 1: Teenage Deckhands

The VFC Archives is full of amazing first-person accounts of everyday life in Vermont and New England–past and present. In this feature, we share these stories with you. The steamboat Ticonderoga is a National Historic Landmark that lives on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT, where it portrays life onboard in 1923. This year, then, a trip aboard the “Ti” is a trip 100 years back in time. Vermont Folklife is proud to have a collection of interviews of many of the people who lived and worked on the Ticonderoga during that time.

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