Ethan allen was one of vermonts founding fathers. He was the first colonel commandant of the original Green Mountain boys, and the Green Mountain boys were at one time the Largest Paramilitary Force in north america, if not for the actions of ethan allen, and the other Green Mountain boys, vermont may very well have looked different than it does today. Announcer welcome to burlington, vermont on American History tv. Located on Lake Champlain, about 45 minutes south of the canadian border. It is home to the university of vermont, and it is the states most popular city with about 42,000 residents. Our comcastp of cable partners, over the next 75 minutes, we will explore the city and region. We begin on the waters of Lake Champlain. To hear how important it was to the citys origins. Welcome to Lake Champlain. We are out here today on the spirit of ethan allen interiors. Great opportunity to tip to talk about americas first great lake when it comes to historic significance. Lake champlain
Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the first floor, you may have seen the big saddle there and t
Lloyd sowers, thanks for being with us. Tonight authorities are looking for two teens who broke out of a detention facility. Evan is out there live. How did they make their escape . Deputies say it appears that the teens teens cut a hole in a chainlink fence and it appears that this facility is secure but obviously the teens were able to make it out. Here are the mugshots of 18yearold anthony cook and 17yearold anthony bays. Both were being held for grand theft aught, and apparently they escaped this morning when a worker saw other teens looking toward a fence. They did a headcount and in a statement a spokeswoman writes youth are to be supervised 24 hours a day including when on the recreational field, and the investigation will determine whether that supervision was in place and whether all policies and procedures were observed. The company is called g4s, the same one that runs the facility in polk county where in 2008 there was a massive riot that caused numerous injuries. Now, at t
We are looking at video right now of a story that we have coming up for you, seray. Live at the casting call of house of cards. Supercool. That is a phenomenal show. I was thinking maybe i will go to the casting call at some point this weekend. I believe they are in baltimore tomorrow. They are in annapolis today. You looked it up, didnt you . I did. We are going to look for that threat for thunderstorms in parts of the area today, but over your neighborhood, its more likely that you stay completely dry today rather than seeing any rain and ill explain why coming up. Right now lets get it started with a look outside with the weather cam and our day planner. You can see there is a good amount of cloud cover at the moment but that will burst through for sunshine very quickly, that strong sun this time of year, kind of evaporating that low cloud cover and that will make for a humid afternoon but notice the strength of those winds, out of the south at about 15 Miles Per Hour at worst in th
Its black friday were shopping deals in little black dresses cute hair and heels. Lets go thats my kind of holiday. And traffic on the 1s. Right now at 6 00 a. M. , snow blankets several states especially in the southwest and more Winter Weather could be coming. This system that dumped the snow and ice in new mexico is on its way here. And ahead of if were it were seeing freezing temperatures. It feels like february. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here to walk us through what to expect today. Tom . Yeah, it is fringid start ii off of this morning. Luckily the winds have died down. This storm coming our way and you may be away from your tv, our storm team 4 weather app you can get free. Theres the sky over washington now. Its clear and dry. And a light northwest wind, 24 at reagan national. By 8 00 just in the low to mid20s much of the region with bright sunshine and a light wind and then by noontime just a little above freezing. Then the mid to upper 30s by midafternoon with in