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Checking Back In To The Bates Motel
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The summer movie season is in full swing with blockbuster after blockbuster duking it out for box office gold. And it’s got VPR’s Tim Johnson thinking about another movie sensation that premiered fifty years ago today.VPR News
History Under the Waves: The General Butler
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In the final part of our series "History Under the Waves" we learn about the dramatic end of the sailing canal boat General Butler on a cold December night at the Burlington Breakwater in 1876.VPR News
History Under the Waves: The Champlain II
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Today in our series "History Under the Waves" we learn about The Champlain II, a boat that had two carrers before meeting its fate on the side of Split Rock Mountain in 1875.VPR News
History Under the Waves: The Sarah Ellen
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In the third part of our series, "History Under the Waves", the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Art Cohn describes the tragic fate of the schooner, Sarah Ellen in 1860.VPR News
History Under the Waves: The Phoenix
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All this week in our series "History Under the Waves" VPR is looking at five historic wrecks that lie at the bottom of Lake Champlain. Today, we look at the Phoenix. Built in 1815, it was the second commercial steamboat launched on Lake Champlain.VPR News
History Under the Waves: The Gunboat Spitfire
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In the first part of our series "History Under The Waves" we look at the Gunboat Spitfire, a part of Benedict Arnold’s fleet of ships assigned the task of repeling the British as they advanced down Lake Champlain in 1776.VPR News
In search of audience etiquette
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As we enter the summer theater season here in Vermont, VPR’s Tim Johnson is finding it harder and harder to find a quiet place to watch anything.VPR News
The Gladys Kravitz Syndrome
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Social commentator Tim Johnson considers surveillance cameras, credit card purchases and Google Earth, and wonders about all the ways he’s being monitored.VPR News
