HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Chris Pearson went canoeing for the first time at a church camp in upstate New York when he was 13 years old. From then on, he was hooked. Not only does he take canoe trips, the ...

In a workspace barely large enough to hold his eager students, Steve Lapey is dispensing wisdom gleaned over his 85 years. Canoes have been Steve's hobby for decades and now he is eagerly passing on ...

COURTESY BISHOP MUSEUM Model canoes: Master noninstrument navigator Mau Piailug of Satawal made the model canoe on the left for former Peace Corps member Wayne Hill, who worked in Micronesia. The ...

On a dead-end country road surrounded by rolling farm fields south of Middlebury, Scott Barkdoll builds and refurbishes wood and canvas canoes. His classic works evoke a simpler time of communing with ...