Students at Mercy Montessori School in Cincinnati handcrafted a 15-foot canoe, learning how to steam bend, tie knots and secure the boat in the process.Seventh and eighth-graders spent a week building ...

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GRAND FORKS - Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago when he saw someone cruising the lake in a kayak. A cabinet ...

It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

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Regardless of which playstyle you’ve chosen, it’ll only be a few minutes before you likely build your first boat. Just look for a small alter that has steps leading up to a conch shell-shaped opening.

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 ...

Erik Simula embodies leadership by nature — natural leadership qualities conducted in the natural world. It began with his Finnish upbringing on a small family farm near Duluth. His exposure to ...

GREAT FALLS (AP) Get very far into canoeing and someday you ll lose your heart to a stripper. Scott Enloe of Great Falls has and, family man that he is, was so taken with the comely, shapely cedar ...