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 ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...

He is a weaver of stories and teller of jokes, a singer of songs, a teacher who is always learning from his students. He also is a carver of huge, solid cedar canoes. Robert Peele, a 52-year-old ...

The red cedar is rich, alive in a way plastic and aluminum never can be, some might say sensual, each whorl of grain a tiny river's eddy. This wood drank these Swan Valley waters, knows this water, is ...