Author Archives: canoelover

Dear outdoor industry peeps, In my former life I was an epidemiologist, working on breast cancer incidence and prevalence. I sliced and diced data by age, race, city, county, even neighborhoods. It was my job to find where there were … Continue reading →

To the fans of the E.M. White Canoe Company, Gilman Falls, ME; I send greetings. So I don’t know how it happened, but I mixed up my stories. I am trying to figure out how the canoe ended up in a … Continue reading →

Mr. Edward M. White started the E.M. White Canoe Company in the mid 1880s. He was one of the first people to build canvas over wood frame canoes, probably after seeing Evan Gerrish paddle one of his canoes on the … Continue reading →

Sometimes sucking at something isn’t such a bad thing. Continue reading →

This has nothing to do with paddling. But nothing says that I have to only write about paddling. My house, my rules. I remember when I was a kid over at some friend’s house. His parents were expressing outrage over … Continue reading →

Another Silent Sports column not on their website. With permission from the publisher.  – DB     “I have a little BFF that showed up by my heart. His name is Mr. Hodgkins.” That’s how Sarah told us she has … Continue reading →

While my re-enactor friends are at a rendezvous this weekend, dressed in period dress, eating period food and enjoying camaraderie, I am at a different sort of rendezvous.  I am at the Outdoor Industry Association Rendezvous.  It’s not in Bloody … Continue reading →

So said Samwise at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And my absence from Canoelover’s blog has very good explanations if not excuses. There are only so many words in a guy’s head, I think, and I … Continue reading →

I wrote this ten years ago, the year I injured myself playing Norm Abram and almost cut a few fingers off my right hand. I wanted to revisit this after ten years because my hand has been aching lately, and … Continue reading →