Ferrisburgh, VT - For more than two centuries, the waters of Lake Champlain have hidden the remains of a marvel of 18th-century engineering a bridge built by 2,500 sick and hungry Continental soldiers. Now a piece of that bridge sits in the preservation laboratory at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, destined to give visitors a portal into revolutionary times. "When you look at what they wanted to do, it connects you right to the American Revolution," said the museum's executive director, Art Cohn. Historians say the bridge was constructed in March and April of 1777. Thousands of huge pine logs...
