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Wooden Boat Show
&
Summer Solstice Festival
The 12th
Annual
** June 19-21, 2009 **
What a weekend! North House
extends its thanks to the many volunteers, friends, partners,
participants and supporters who made our 2009 WBS event a huge
success.
Want to plan
ahead??
June 18-20, 2010
Take a look below at info about 2009!
Celebrating the North,
Traditional Crafts
and
the Joy of Summer!
The big weekend!!
The Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Festival at North
House Folk School kicks off the season of light in the North.
The weekend includes programs, courses, speakers,
demonstrations, workshops, food, dancing, displays and endless
opportunities for great conversation.
Downloadable
Resources
Flier - 2009
Wooden Boat Show
Full Descriptions
- 2009 Weekend Program Schedule
2009 Wooden Boat
Display
Sunday's Steambent
Brunch - Join Us!
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AUCTION FLIER & LISTING NOW
ON-LINE
Learn more about the Wooden Boat Show's
Boats to Tools Auction!
Saturday - June 20
2009
Featured Event Courses
* these courses are
scheduled to align with
the Wooden Boat Show weekend, offering an ideal opportunity
to both participate in hands-on learning and
be part of an inspiring special event weekend!
Visit the course
description pages to learn more!!
Starting June 15 or 16

Primitive Rug Hooking
(3 days – see Fiber
Art)
Starting June 17
Primitive Rug Hooking
(3 days – see Fiber
Art)
Handcraft A Wool Braided Rug
(3 days – see Fiber
Art)
Raku Pottery Experience
(1 days – see
Traditional Crafts)
Scandinavian Work Shirts
(3 days – see
Clothing & Jewelry)
Starting June 18

Birch Bark Weaving - An Introduction
(2 days – see
Basketry)
Starting June 19
All Packed Up - Craft Your Trail Stove
(0.5 days – see
Outdoor Skills)
Craft of Sail - FULL
(1
days – see Sailing)
Ropework - Knot Tying Workshop
- FULL
(1 days – see
Sailing)
Starting June 22

Crafting a Traditional Longbow
and Arrow
(3 days – see Outdoor
Skills)
Help Yourself To Knitting!
(2 days – see
Knitting)
Spinning Fibers On A Wheel
(3 days – see
Knitting)
Step 1 - Lofting For Boatbuilders
(2 days – see
Boatbuilding)
Sustainable Harvest of Tree Bark For Basketry
(2 days – see
Basketry)
Textile Craft Workshop
(3 days – see Fiber
Art)
Starting June 23
Cedar-Strip Boatbuilding - Build Your Own
(11 days – see
Boatbuilding)
LOOKING
BACK
Our 2008 Wooden
Boat Show was fun-filled - rich
with people, stories, laughter and celebration.
Thanks to
everyone who helped make
the 2008 WBS a HUGE success
Visit the Photo Gallery below to see images from 2008
plus a few from earlier years.
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Photo Gallery
A picture is worth 1000 words - the following images
capture some of the event's character and hint at the possibilities for the
future. Special thanks to contributing
photographers Layne Kennedy, Stephan Hoglund, Betsy
Bowen, David Grindstead, Robert Meyers, Deborah
Morse-Kahn, Lonnie Dupre:
Please click to enlarge
Learn more by reviewing these
resources to from
the 2008 Wooden Boat Show (click to download):
2008 Program Flier
UPDATED 2008 Schedule with
Program Descriptions
Boat Display Information & Form
Boats To Tools Auction Form
2008 Steam Bent Brunch
(reservations recommended)
Learn more about an important part
of the Wooden Boat Show:
The Boats to Tools Auction!
Free Event
Member Supported & Volunteer Hosted
This special event is largely free and
open to the public thanks to the involvement and support
of many people. It is one of several
special events that we host
throughout the year, celebrating the North and our
educational mission. Strong membership support
makes this event and others like it possible (new
members are always welcome!) A team of
dedicated and spirited volunteers host the event (call
218-387-9762 if you'd like to help out).
* * Featured Guests
- John Jennings
* * Boats to Tools Auction - an auction
with a cause,
learn more
* * Northern Craft Demos
- by North House instructors
* * Wooden Boat Slide Series
- please download program descriptions
* * Handcraft Workshops
- please download program
descriptions
* * Wooden Boat Display - focusing on
traditional wooden craft
* * Summer Solstice Festival - featuring the Good
Harbor Hill Players
* * Delicious North Shore Cooking - a harbor-side
barbecue, the
Chowder Slow Down, the Steam Bent Brunch (arrive hungry)
* * and So Much More! - the
weekend's offerings continue to evolve!
2008 Featured
Guest

John Jennings,
Canadian Canoe Historian
“The canoe is the carrier of our myths
and our images of landscape, reaching deep into our
history and into the future as a symbol of stewardship
of the land. It is the greatest gift of the First
Peoples to all those who came after, and a symbol both
of exploration and discovery and of a quite harmony with
nature.”
John Jennings, is a
recently retired professor of history at Trent
University in Peterborough, Ontario. He was one of the
founders of the Canadian Canoe Museum and for many years
the Canoe Museum’s Vice Chair and principle fundraiser.
He received the Ontario Museum Association’s Award of
Merit for Lifetime Service for his work with the Canoe
Museum. Jennings is the author of the award winning
The Canoe: A Living Legend and Bark Canoes: The
Art and Obsession of Tappan Adney and is co-editor
of The Canoe In Canadian Cultures. He is
currently working on another book dealing with the
northern canoe explorations of the Geological Survey of
Canada. He was recently appointed to the Historic Sites
and Monuments Board of Canada. He and his wife Nicola
and children, Julia and Michael, are avid canoeists and
have traveled many wilderness rivers.
** John Jennings' visit is funded in part by the Dr.
Donald Walker Memorial Fund.
Wooden Boat Display 
All
Wooden Boats Hand-Built or Restored
Welcome!
Wooden boats of all types are displayed during the
event. Individual boat builders (both novice and
professional) are welcomed to display either wooden
boats or related items. North House boat building
alumni are especially encouraged to attend and be part
of the events Wooden Boat Parade!
Download the Details!!
Get plugged in today
Read more about our
featured guests and review the weekend's calendar of
events. Click on these PDF downloads:
2008 Program Flier
2008 Schedule with Program
Descriptions
Boat Display Information & Form
Boats To Tools Auction Form
2008 Steam Bent Brunch
(reservations recommended)
If you are unable to open these forms North House will
happily send you forms by mail - please send your
request, name & address to
info@northhouse.org
or call North House at 218-387-9762
Chowder Chowdown

Experience the Tastes - Eat Well and Support North House
Saturday at Noon, $10/person
Special thanks to the North
Shore chefs and restaurants who make this delicious
dimension of the Wooden Boat Show a reality:
** Angry Trout
** Beth's Fudge & Gifts
** Birch Terrace
** Blue
Water Cafe
** Bluefin Bay
** Coho Cafe
** Crooked Spoon
** Dockside Fish Market
** Gun Flint Tavern
** Gunflint Lodge
** Naniboujou Lodge
** The Pie Place
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A
Look Back
Without question, one of the highlights of the the
Wooden Boat Show event are the special guests we welcome
to campus each years
Skip Snaith,

Skin-on-Frame Boat Builder, Researcher and Revivalist
Skip has been a professional boat builder for over 35
years. With experience as a canoeist, kayaker and ocean
racer he has sailed, paddled and rowed a wide variety of
craft, and has built anything from a glued-lap Rushton
Canoe to a fiberglass trimaran. Snaith has been
traveling to native villages in Alaska since 1998 as a
skin boat teacher, student, researcher and revivalist,
spreading the ballistic nylon gospel wherever he goes.
His book, Umiak, An Illustrated Guide, has
inspired experiential boat builders like North House
Folk School’s own Mark Hansen and has been called a
“concise, straightforward, and handcrafted book…giving
the umiak some of the recognition - and reconstruction -
it deserves” (George B. Dyson, author of Baidarka).
Garrett/Alexandra Conover
For 26 years Alexandra and Garrett have been
professional canoe and snowshoe guides based in
Willimantic, Maine. Garrett is the author of Beyond the
Paddle. Together, they co-authored, the Snow Walker's
Companion. Now in it's third edition the book continues
to serve as the leading guide on extended winter travel.
The Conover’s method of travel reflects traditions
refined by generations of wilderness guides. In 1999, Outside Magazine profiled Alexandra
and Garrett along with five others under the heading of
"The Great Ones: 20th Century Heroes for a New
Millennium." Together, they live in their permanent
wall-tent home on the Big Wilson Stream. Learn
more about their
2006 Winter
Walk in northern Maine.
In 2005,
Becky Mason, "Canada's First Lady of the Wooden
Canoe" was our special guest. Becky has journeyed in canoes for as long as
she can remember and learned to paddle before she could
walk. She acquired her paddling skills and her love for
canoes from her father the late Bill Mason, the author
and filmmaker of the "Path of the Paddle" series. To learn more about
visit the Red Canoe
web site.
In 2004, Joanie & Gary McGuffin from Canada shared their
passion with North House for three full days. Their
experience paddling in the north, stunning wilderness
photography, and compelling program made the event even
more memorable.
In 2003, three special guests: ,
Jerry Stelmok (canoe builder & author), Deborah
Sussex (professional photographer) and
Joe Seliga (canoe builder) - pictured below left to
right. The three cooperated on the book The Art of
the Canoe with Joe Seliga (copies available through
the North House school store).
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