The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...

It's crazy to spend countless hours and personal calories chopping on a huge log to make a canoe, but it sure is irresistible to watch. People of all ages seem enchanted by canoe building activity, ...

He'd buy the logs if the assembled sawyers would put their knowledge of wood to an unusual test by building a dugout canoe. Johnston, a retired logger who lives in the woods eight miles out of Orofino ...