CHICAGO (CBS) --There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...
I remember watching an aging Dick Schafrath toss 80-pound canoes onto the upper tiers of a trailer without breaking a sweat. I decided then and there I wanted to grow up to be like him − wrangling ...
BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...
Most of us in canoe country are looking for canoes that are faster and lighter. Not Jon Rahkola of Barnum and his engineering buddies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Their assignment was to ...
When Bill Collett was in junior high, his father introduced him to canoeing with a trip to the Boundary Waters. "That was all it took to spark an interest," he says. Now retired from 31 years as a ...
MACON, Ga. — People only have 4 days left to see how different Native American tribes make canoes at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. It's part of their canoe building demonstration. The ...
CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...
CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...