jloewen

If any of you knew John Duell, Canoe Base staff, c.1958 -- 1962, he died recently, in the U.K. For the next three weeks you can see his memorial service at https://www.obitus.com/index.php?page=view-a-webcast . You need the User name, which is Qulu2451, and the password, which is 543966. John went on to become an architect in London.

I just finished a book,Up a Creek, With a Paddle. The first third of the book is about Region 7 Canoe Base. You might enjoy the rueful write-ups. To quote from the publisher's ad, Up a Creek, With a Paddle is an intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, who holds the distinction of being the best-selling living sociologist today. Rivers are good metaphors for life, and paddling for living. In this little book, Loewen skillfully makes these connections without sermonizing, resulting in nuggets of wisdom about how to live, how to act meani