If you are interested in supporting the Penobscot Marine Museum's efforts to keep these skills alive, please look here. This year, they are also raffling off the birchbark canoe made in last year's seminar and featured in the article. To help fund this program, the museum has been working to obtain grants. (Thanks, Scot!) Now that Steve has passed these skills along to David, he's been passing them along as well. In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the so. Steve Cayard has been teaching about the subject for quite some time and one of his students and now assistant David Moses Bridges of the Passamaquoddy is featured in a video here. Read 95 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Here's the article about the canoe from Maine Boats Homes & Harbors written by Ben Fuller. The canoe was named a "Boat of the Year" by Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors magazine - and for good reason - here it is: Last summer, the museum hosted one of these seminars and master builder and former WoodenBoat School instructor Steve Cayard led a two-week long class on how to build these traditional boats. It is an art form which up until recently was nearly forgotten by the First Peoples of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and the Maliseet. The Penobscot Marine Museum has been hosting a seminar to help keep the tradition of Birchbark canoe building alive.
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