Archive | January, 2009

Paddling Through the Coal-Ash Spill

9 Jan

Members of the environmental group Appalachian Voices recently paddled canoes on the Emory and Clinch Rivers near Kingston, Tennessee where a coal-ash spill at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant dumped one billion gallons of sludge onto the landscape.  They produced the short video of their trip below. The December 22 breach affected a 300 acre area of […]

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“Do Not Begin to Paddle …

7 Jan

… unless you are inclined to continue paddling.” So goes the saintly advice of Jean de Brébeuf, the French Jesuit missionary who paddled with the Hurons in the early days of New France. Brébeuf (pictured), who was canonized a Roman Catholic saint in 1930 along with seven other “North American Martyrs,” offered his paddling insights […]

Happy Canoe Year!

5 Jan

It seemed natural enough to link to a story headlined “Happy Canoe Year” for our first Canoeing News post of 2009. The story, HERE, in Illinois’ Lake Forester reports on the 23rd annual New Year’s Day canoe trip down the North Branch of the Chicago River. The event, which began as a modest outing Ralph […]

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