A BIG, HAIRY DEAL
ON A SUNNY FALL SATURDAY IN WHITEHALL, along the banks of the Champlain Canal, believers walked among the browsers. “Investigators” mingled with kids eyeing “Gone ’squatching” stickers and tourists buying handmade crafts and fragrant fried dough. And throughout Skenesborough Park, people in brown, furry costumes strutted and posed for pictures near “Bigfoot Crossing” signs.
The 2021 Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest marked a happy return of the annual gathering, which was canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.
Author Paul Bartholomew manned a table where the crowd was three-deep, waiting to speak to him. He presented plaster casts of alleged footprints and talked about
