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February 11,
2009
Contact: Steven Leibman or Grace Per Lee
802-864-1848 ext. 125 or 131
sleibman@echovermont.org or
gperlee@echovermont.org
VERMONT DIGNITARIES TO ATTEND PRE-OPENING EVENT FOR ECHO’S
QUADRICENTENIAL EXHIBIT:
“INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS: NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN
BASIN”
WHO: State of Vermont dignitaries,
Vermont Native American dignitaries, Smithsonian anthropologist,
Peabody-award-winning filmmaker, invited ECHO partners and
supporters.
WHEN/WHAT:
Friday, February 13, 2009
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center,
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, 1 College Street, Burlington,
VT
6:00 p.m. Exhibit viewing of INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS throughout ECHO
6:45 p.m. REMARKS BY DIGNITARIES, RIBBON CUTTING AND
RECOGNITION CEREMONY (Mezzanine)
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Hon. Bob Kiss, Mayor, City of Burlington
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Hon. James Douglas, Governor, State of
Vermont
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Bruce Hyde, Chair, Vermont Quadricentennial
Commission
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Robert Paquin, Office of Senator Patrick
Leahy
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Fred Wiseman, Tribal Historian
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April St. Francis Merrill, Missisquoi
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Nancy Millette, Connecticut River Valley
KOAS
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Burton DeCarr, Pipe Carrier
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Roger Longtoe Sheehan, Elnu Abenaki
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Dr. Stephen Loring, Anthropologist and
Arctic Archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution
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Ted Timreck, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker
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Ned Castle, acclaimed photographer
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Dr. Phelan Fretz, ECHO Executive Director
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Tom Little, ECHO Board Chair
| 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center,
Film House, 1 Main Street, Burlington VT |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Lecture by Dr. Stephen Loring, Anthropologist
and Arctic Archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Premiere: Before the Lake was
Champlain, by Ted Timreck, Peabody Award-winning
filmmaker |
WHY: Pre-opening event celebrating the
opening of ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center
for Lake Champlain’s Quadricentennial exhibit: “INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS: Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain Basin” —
declared a “Top 10 Winter Event” by the Vermont Chamber of
Commerce. Through hands-on exhibits, live species, a
Contemporary Portrait Gallery, speaker’s series, film
screenings, and artifacts, ECHO hopes to shed more light on
indigenous stories that have too often been just a side-note in
history, and to illustrate how their connections and adaptations
to the land allow our Native neighbors to survive and thrive in
the Lake Champlain Basin. In partnership with Smithsonian
Institution Archaeologist and Anthropologist Stephen Loring and
Abenaki Historian Frederick Wiseman, ECHO examines the
multifaceted human-landscape connections that go back thousands
of years, and are still viable today. The public exhibit opening
is Saturday, February 14.
This exhibit made possible by a grant from the
US Department of Education through the support of Patrick Leahy,
KeyBank, and the ECHO Annual Fund.
ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center is
located at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, on Vermont’s
Burlington Waterfront. ECHO features 70 live species, over 100
interactive experiences, seasonal changing exhibits and events —
all exploring the Ecology, Culture, History, and Opportunity for
stewardship of the Lake Champlain Basin. The 2.2 acre Leahy
Center environmental campus is also highlighted by the Lake
Champlain Basin Program Resource Room, UVM’s Rubenstein
Ecosystem Science Laboratory, Lake Champlain Navy Memorial,
ECHO’s Eclectic Gift Shop, and green-themed Think! Café. Open
year-round, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve &
Day. Admission is $7-$9.50; children under 3 and K-12 classroom
teachers with credential ID are free. For more information visit
echovermont.org, call 1-877-ECHOFUN, or write to ECHO Lake
Aquarium and Science Center, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain,
One College Street, Burlington, VT 05401.
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