Interview: Caro Thompson on “Champlain: The Lake Between”

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In 2009, Vermont is commemorating the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s voyage to the lake that is named after him.

The native people who lived around the lake called it "the Lake Between." And it’s the history of those people, the European explorers, and their first 150 years together that film maker Caro Thompson explores in a new documentary.

(Thompson) "As day softens into evening in the land known as Indakina, in a time long long ago, a woman prepares supper for her family. All is well for now. But they are living at the edge of a historic time, their world they and their ancestors have know for thousands of years will soon shift around them. New people will come. Some to quietly live on and share the land, others to trade and do business. Many to conquer and colonize."

The film Champlain: The Lake Between premiers tonight on Vermont Public Television. Thompson says the Abenaki word for the lake provided the perfect title of her film.

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