On a recent sunny morning, 20 resort guests of all ages gathered on the Main Lodge’s back porch overlooking Lake Champlain. They came to hear the fourth-generation co-owner of Basin Harbor Resort and Boat Club, Bob Beach Jr., give an engaging historical overview of Lake Champlain.
In addition to running a 150-room resort, Beach is an accomplished historian and preservationist. Now in his early 70s, he wore a familiar Vermont summer uniform: a golf shirt, khaki shorts, and hiking boots. Tall and trim with bright-white hair and round-rimmed glasses, he’s easily spotted when driving his golf cart around the 700-acre resort with his two golden retrievers aboard.
