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 ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION — She’s a 15-foot-9-inch-long, lost-art beauty, all graceful curves and elegant flowing lines. She only needs a few bits of fancy trim — and a ...
"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 ...
Trent Preszler, the CEO of Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue, makes wooden canoes by hand. Preszler, who grew up on South Dakota cattle ranch, taught himself how to do it from scratch by reading books and ...
“When we started out, we didn’t know a thing about woodworking”, Todd Randall says as he switches on a table saw and dons some ear protection. “We learned as we went and got a lot of advice from our ...
Art hangs in museums, graces local trails and it floats on water when Tony Eliasen slips his sleek hand-made wooden canoe into the lake. The canoe is a beautiful, gleaming sight to behold when Eliasen ...
The highest percentage of dates from the testing are between 1640 to 1680 A.D. — -- A historical canoe was unearthed by Hurricane Irma from the Indian River in Cocoa, Florida, along what locals ...
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. --So many hurricane stories are ones of loss -- but this is a story of discovery. Photographer found dugout wooden canoe after Irma Archaeologists studied wood to discover age of ...