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]]> Comment on Summer Nights Under the Stars by JKSchiller http://www.rockwell-center.org/exploring-illustration/summer-nights-under-the-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-358 JKSchiller Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:19:50 +0000 http://www.rockwell-center.org/?p=2175#comment-358 Good question Ray, I will have to look into it. So far I've found a couple of possible leads: An early proponent and popularizer of canoe camping was George W. Sears, a sportswriter for <em>Forest and Stream</em> magazine in the 1880s, whose book <em>Woodcraft</em> (1884), told the story of his 1883, 266-mile journey through the central Adirondacks in a 9-foot-long , 10+1⁄2-pound solo canoe named the <em>Sairy Gamp</em>. Also in 1883, American Canoe Association Secretary Charles Neide and retired sea captain "Barnacle" Kendall paddled and sailed over 3,000 miles in a sailing canoe from Lake George, New York to Pensacola, Florida. The adventure memoir <em>Canoeing with the Cree </em>relates Eric Sevareid's youthful journey with a companion from Minnesota to Hudson Bay in 1930. Thanks, Joyce Joyce K. Schiller Curator, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Good question Ray,

I will have to look into it. So far I’ve found a couple of possible leads:

An early proponent and popularizer of canoe camping was George W. Sears, a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s, whose book Woodcraft (1884), told the story of his 1883, 266-mile journey through the central Adirondacks in a 9-foot-long , 10+1⁄2-pound solo canoe named the Sairy Gamp.

Also in 1883, American Canoe Association Secretary Charles Neide and retired sea captain “Barnacle” Kendall paddled and sailed over 3,000 miles in a sailing canoe from Lake George, New York to Pensacola, Florida.

The adventure memoir Canoeing with the Cree relates Eric Sevareid’s youthful journey with a companion from Minnesota to Hudson Bay in 1930.

Thanks, Joyce

Joyce K. Schiller
Curator, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies

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