Tag: Champlain Statue

A handful of community members, historians, and Native Americans from the region have teamed up to create an interpretive panel to place near the Samuel De Champlain statue that has sat on the shore of the lake that bears his name, in the City of Plattsburgh, since 1912. The panel will point out what the…

Watch our extended interview with Champlain Monument Working Group members Pastor Greg Huth and Penelope Clute on the one aspect of the monument that the sculptor portrayed quite accurately. They also talk about Champlain’s extraordinary accomplishments as an explorer and cartographer: Another Champlain statue has also stirred debate and controversy over the portrayal of indigenous…