Talked to local historian vince feeney about the life of ira allen and his influence on the city in vermont. Vince here we are in whats called College Green of the university of vermont. Probably one of the prettiest spots in burlington. Behind me we have a statue of ira allen. Was the youngest of the six allen brothers, the most famous of whom was ethan allen. The statue is here because some would say that ira allen was the founder of the university of vermont and as this inscription on the statue says, some claim he was the founder of the state of vermont. I think there would be a lot of people who would contend that is not exactly true, particularly his older brother ethan might have something to say about that and people like the first governor of the independent state of vermont. Allen, andthat ira about 1772, came up here to vermont from connecticut, where the allens live, and at the time for montt was a New Territory being opened up. It was a territory claimed by the governor of
Acres. And it is a village setting in many respects, but within that village every structure houses an amazing selection put together or collected by electr webb, who was our founder in 1947. She amassed an amazing collection, which the Shelburne Museum houses amongst its 39 or so pilgdinbuildings. Its just a plethora of objects and collections within collections to see here, from impressionist art to weathhethe weathervanes to cigar stores to the largest item she collected, which was the tikonderoga. Whats interesting about the ti, it was built in 1906. Which was really wi, as you loot it from hindsight, the cusp from the steamboat era to internal combustion engine. And when they built her, they didnt realize that this perhaps might be the last boats built for Lake Champlain, but she was one of 29 steamers built for the lake. And she was the last one. Basically operated on Lake Champlain as a day boat. The lake is over 125 miles long, but the ti ran from the vermont shoreline over to
The chinese city of tianjin. Now there are reports of toxic fumes from the blast site. Sarah im sarah harman, thanks for joining us. The situation in athens is tense at this hour. Lawmakers are voting on a key but contentious bailout deal. It could lead to a split in the ruling party. The vote comes as the Greek Economy shows tentative signs of recovery. A look now at what is at stake in the bailout. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a storm of criticism. Newspaper headlines read, yet more taxes for greece, complaining about tsiprass politics. One key demand is privatization of stateowned companies, with 14 Regional Airports likely to go to a german airport operator. One port has already been partially privatized and more of it will be sold off in october. The revenues will go straight to the banking. The eurozone is not keen on shouldering the entire cost of recapitalizing greeces banks. The public will have to shoulder its share in the form of tax hikes and pension cuts.
With gas several days ago. And a huge double explosion in the chinese city of tianjin. Now there are reports of toxic fumes from the blast site. Sarah im sarah harman, thanks for joining us. The situation in athens is tense at this hour. Lawmakers are voting on a key but contentious bailout deal. It could lead to a split in the ruling party. The vote comes as the Greek Economy shows tentative signs of recovery. A look now at what is at stake in the bailout. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a storm of criticism. Newspaper headlines read, yet more taxes for greece, complaining about tsiprass politics. One key demand is privatization of stateowned companies, with 14 Regional Airports likely to go to a german airport operator. One port has already been partially privatized and more of it will be sold off in october. The revenues will go straight to the banking. The eurozone is not keen on shouldering the entire cost of recapitalizing greeces banks. The public will have to shou
And can they really pull it off . Salvage crews in italy are ready to try to right the capsized costa concordia. That and much more on cbs this morning saturday, september 14th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We have some terrific guests for you this morning, including seventime grammy winner gloria is stefan who will be singing a Billy Holliday classic, a song from her new collection of american standards. Plus pastry chef who they call mr. Chocolate chef Jacques Torrez in studio 57. First our top story, the steady flooding in the rockies. The relengthless rain continues overnight into the morning pushing the rivers from their banks from the banks to Colorado Springs. At least four people are dead. 172 are unaccounted for, thousands had to evacuate and more rain is on the way. Rick salinger of our affiliate station kcnc is with us good. Morning, rick. Reporter good morning, vinita and anthony. Whats happening is its all pushing further, cutting off towns an