By Don Wickman In the War of 1812 on Lake Champlain, most attention is given to the Battle of Plattsburgh naval engagement on September 11, 1814. And rightfully so as the result halted a British advance and forced a withdrawal back into Canada. But there was more than just Plattsburgh. Scattered military actions occurred on both land and water, and a naval arms race took place with the Americans primarily at Vergennes and the British shipyard at Isle aux Noix in the Richelieu

June 1998 featured a streak of wet weather. Rains saturated the soils, rivers and streams ran briskly. It can be assumed people wished for a stretch of sunny weather. That wish failed to occur on June 25. It not only rained, but poured and most of the rain fell in the afternoon and into the night. Rainfall records are sketchy, but accounts mention rain totals from two to eight inches of precipitation in Essex, Clinton and Warren Counties. Chesterfield hit the top with the e

Gen. John Burgoyne paused his army and set up camp at the mouth of the Boquet River on his way to Saratoga in June of 1777. At that encampment, the proud British general devoted his attention to two sometimes overlooked groups that play important roles in the new “American Revolution” PBS television series – Native Americans and the large American Loyalist population. "John Burgoyne" by Joshua Reynolds, 1766 Ken Burns and his PBS team argue – in their six-part series – that