"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 ...

Members of the Inuit community of Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador province once used wood-and-canvas canoes to navigate the region's rivers. An Inuit Builder Crafts His Last Canoe In a remote ...

CASCADE -- From his youth, when he worked at a summer camp in Maine where he watched a leathery old hand build Maine guide canoes, John Greer has wanted to build his own canoe. So when the lifelong ...

Jerry Stelmok and Rollin Thurlow might have been bitter cross-town rivals. They both make timeless wood-and-canvas canoes that typically sell for about $6,000 apiece, and they both have workshops a ...

In a workspace barely large enough to hold his eager students, Steve Lapey is dispensing wisdom gleaned over his 85 years. Canoes have been Steve's hobby for decades and now he is eagerly passing on ...

OAK GROVE, Minn. — Inside an unassuming workshop, Jesse Gerhard is painstakingly building a canoe with locally discarded wood. "This is from a church in Crystal, the actual plywood. The redwood is ...

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — Tom McCloud recently brought a piece of Ludington history home. McCloud, who lives in Frederick, Maryland, visits the area annually for salmon fishing, but this year he brought ...