What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wayne Valliere, an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and one of only a handful of Native birchbark canoe builders left in the U.S., constructs an elaborate 16-foot canoe. ICE took her ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...

Stan Zdunek is in his late 70s. He and his wife, Cathy, build a lot of canoes. They say it's "a retirement project gone horribly wrong." That project is Slipstream Watercrafts, a canoe and kayak ...

A TIME. ♪ DISTANCE DOES NOT LIMIT A DREAM. IN FACT, SOMETIMES THE MORE DISTANT THE DREAM, THE MORE PASSIONATE THE DREAMER. >> IT IS THE MOST REWARDING THING I HAVE EVER DONE, FOR SURE. ANTHONY: HERE ...

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 ...