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Albert Abair
Attended 1929 opening day ceremony of the Lake Champlain Bridge. He had to walk miles with his family to see it because the crowds of people in Vermont created a huge traffic jam.
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Martin Bezon
Attended 1929 opening day ceremony of 1929 Lake Champlain Bridge. Seeing an airplane for the first time was such a thrill he signed up for the U.S. Army Air Corps. in World War II.
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Raymond “Bud” Bodette
Third generation West Addison dairy farmer and curator of numerous historic photographs of the building of the 1929 Lake Champlain Bridge taken by his uncle, William Bodette
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James Boni
New York State Department of Transportation Project Manager for the Lake Champlain Bridge Project
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Erwin Clark
President of Addison Historical Society and member of the Lake Champlain Bridge Public Advisory Committee and Working Group for Commemoration.
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Lisa Cloutier
Owner of The Bridge Restaurant, West Addison, VT, named after the nearby Lake Champlain Bridge.
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John Crock
Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and Director of the University's Consulting Archaeology Program. UVM excavated threatened portions of the Chimney Point archaeological site and monitored bridge demolition and construction to help protect highly significant archaeological resources preserved under the new bridge.
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Steven Engelhart
Executive Director of Adirondack Architectural Heritage, which sponsored the nomination of the 1929 Lake Champlain Bridge to the National Register for Historic Places and its designation as a National Historic Landmark; member of the Lake Champlain Bridge Public Advisory Committee and the Working Group for Commemoration
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Lorraine Franklin
Resident adjacent to bridge, business owner of the West Addison Grocery Story and Champ’s Trading Post and key organizer of the Lake Champlain Bridge Coalition
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Elsa Gilbertson
Regional Historic Site Administrator, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, for the Chimney Point, Mount Independence, and Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Sites, and member of the Working Group for Commemoration
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John Grady
New York State Department of Transportation Regional Construction Engineer
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Timothy Kayhart
West Addison dairy farmer and member of the Lake Champlain Bridge Public Advisory Committee
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William LaFrance
Worked as a toll collector for the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission
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Dan Lee
Former bridge worker whose father was a maintenance worker for the 1929 Lake Champlain Bridge for 52 years.
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Robert McCullough
Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at the University of Vermont and author of the nomination of the Lake Champlain Bridge to the National Register of Historic Places
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Bruce Peters
New York State resident who commuted to Middlebury for the night shift across Lake Champlain in a small boat and snowmobile once the bridge was demolished
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Thomas Scozzafava
Town Supervisor of Moriah, New York
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M. Virginia LaPointe Southworth
Great-granddaughter of the first Chairman of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission, Mortimer Yale Ferris, and granddaughter of Elizabeth Ferris, the 17-year old who cut the ribbon at the 1929 opening day ceremony
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Mitch St. Pierre
Crown Point, NY resident and owner of St. Pierre Hoof Care, whose service to Vermont’s dairy farmers was challenged by the closing of the bridge
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Jane Tur
Attended 1929 opening day ceremony of 1929 Lake Champlain Bridge who vividly remembers seeing the two governors riding in touring cars and being impressed by the music provided by many bands.
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Frank Wojewodzik
Worked as a toll collector for the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission
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Theodore “Ted” Zoli, III
Glens Falls native, Vice President of HNTB, winner of a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship and designer of the 2011 Lake Champlain Bridge
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