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DISPATCHES
Dedicated Crew Makes 1906 Steamboat Ship-Shape
Shelburne, Vt.
In the winter of 1955, Electra Havemeyer Webb had the last Lake Champlain steamboat towed to the site of her new museum. Even for a sugar heiress who was fast becoming known as a maverick collector, this was an unusual undertaking: The Shelburne Museum is two miles from the lake, and the steamboat —...