"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 ...

Hulls constructed of willow give canoes a Mississippi flavor. Classes meet two nights a week for six weeks. Canoes are 15 feet and weigh about 42 pounds. Avid paddler John Carter of Jackson never ...

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 ...

MOORESVILLE — Woodworking is a traditional craft in decline in this increasingly digital world, but one Mooresville resident is helping keep the art form alive. John Van Hal makes custom wooden canoes ...

Nakai Clearwater Northup (right), head of education at the Mashantucket Pequot, carves up deer meat alongside Miguel Ortiz who is with visitor services. Members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal ...

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the ...

Florida researchers may be closer to figuring out the mysterious origin of an old canoe that surfaced after Hurricane Irma. Using a technique known as radiocarbon dating, archaeologists recently ...

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 ...