"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

A birch bark canoe was assembled last week at the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ Escanaba Community Center, the ...

ZANESVILLE – He values tradition, and it shows in his work. “We lived rurally growing up,” recalled Jason Hammond. “My friends and I were able to get out and mess around in the fields and woods riding ...

Trent Preszler, the CEO of Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue, makes wooden canoes by hand. Preszler, who grew up on South Dakota cattle ranch, taught himself how to do it from scratch by reading books and ...

The highest percentage of dates from the testing are between 1640 to 1680 A.D. — -- A historical canoe was unearthed by Hurricane Irma from the Indian River in Cocoa, Florida, along what locals ...

A canoe or kayak hand-crafted in wood for $5,000 might seem a luxury, rather than a deal to most of us. But Lance Alpi, who started making them last year at his Williamstown workshop, has already ...

The dawn of the modern history of the canoe can be traced, apparently, to the summer of 1856, when four guys from Peterborough, Ontario, embarked on a camping trip lugging a 200-pound dugout. After ...

Buying a factory-made canoe and kayak rack for a pickup can thin a bank account in a hurry. Invest a free Saturday and it's easy to build your own rack that slides easily into a truck bed. The $50 to ...