Interesting Event About Burlington: Water Meets Land

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May 25, 2016

*Champlain’s Special Collections Program To Host Water Meets Land: Commerce, Recreation, and Preservation of Burlington’s Waterfront on May 25*

On the evening of Wednesday, May 25, Champlain College will hold its fourth annual local history event, *Water Meets Land: Commerce, Recreation, and Preservation of Burlington’s Waterfront*. Hosted by the College’s Special Collections program and Office of Advancement, the program will feature two presentations on waterfront history and an exhibition of collections drawn from the College’s Llewellyn Collection of Vermont History. Local historian Vincent E. Feeney will speak on “The Early Days of Burlington’s Inland Port,” and preservationist Britta Fenniman Tonn will present on “The Burlington Breakwater, Past and Present.”

*Water Meets Land* will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Champlain Room at Champlain College’s Center for Communications and Creative Media at 375 Maple Street in Burlington. Presentations will begin at 7:30 pm, and light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To confirm a seat, please respond no later than May 18 to waterlandrsvp@champlain.edu or call 802-860-2785.

Regina McCarthy Farrell

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