How did Old Town even begin ... it a lot easier to manufacture and take care of. A birch bark canoe is a wonderful thing to paddle, but it's a terrible thing to maintain. It's really hard to ...

Meet 23-year-old Peter Frank ... “When you live in a canoe, such things do not matter, like time and the day of the week, but rather the stroke of the paddle,” he said.

Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen discovered this 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Lake Mendota ... a few have even been accompanied by paddles or tools, like net sinkers and an adz, a wood ...