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Valid Apr. 24 - Aug. 30
weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until August 31, 2025
Portside Restaurant
Portside at Westport Marina (seasonal)
"Lake Hour" is better than Happy Hour! Enjoy drink discounts while sitting on Lake Champlain at Portside Restaurant.
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weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until April 17, 2025
Lake Hour at Portside Restaurant
It's better than Happy Hour! Enjoy Lake Hour from 5 to 6pm on Mondays through Thursdays in July and August at Portside Restaurant, on stunning Lake Champlain. Portside often features loc...
Valid Apr. 14 - May. 17
Valid Apr. 7 - May. 17
Mother's Day Stay - the gift mom really wants!
The Chateau on Dock Street
Give mom the gift she really wants this Mother's Day - bring the whole family together under one roof!
This spacious, lakefront home is th

Endangered Alphabets, Cultural Erosion, and the Future of the Written Word
Discover the Future of the Written Word with Tim Brookes
What does the age of digital convergence, ChatGPT, and globalization mean for the future of the written word?
Writer/carver/painter Tim Brookes offers a remarkable and thought-provoking perspective on this question by looking at a range of forms of writing from all over the world that are in danger of extinction. He displays a carving of a piece of text in each script, leading a discussion on how the story of a culture can be seen in its writing, even if that writing is (as in these examples) beautiful, utterly unfamiliar, and disappearing.
For more information on the Endangered Alphabet Project, visit www.endangeredalphabets.com.
Speaker Bio
Tim Brookes was born in England and educated at Oxford before moving to the United States in 1980. An editor, guitarist, teacher, soccer coach, and author of 17 books and numerous articles and essays, he founded the Endangered Alphabets Project in 2010 with his first exhibition of carvings in indigenous and minority scripts.
Since then, he has exhibited and spoken about the Endangered Alphabets at more than 150 colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and galleries including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress, while working with a wide range of cultures to create games and educational materials for learning minority scripts.
His latest book is "Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from Endangered Alphabets." He lives in a 19th-century farmhouse overlooking Lake Champlain.