Sentences with phrase «in canoes making»

We were voyageurs in canoes making an honest living, not Hudson's Bay factors plundering the wilderness.

Not exact matches

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

In a subtly sweet gesture that only Ron Swanson is capable of, Offerman made his Parks and Rec family canoe paddles out of saved wood from the show's set.

I made some (with the same amount of batter per muffin) in a canoe pan which the kids thought were fun and very easy to dip.

Danish - made kayaks and Canadian canoes in the K - 1, K - 2, K - 4 or C - 1 and C - 2 sizes can be ordered (as finished boats only) from Raymond Dodge, Competition Canoes, 1625 Broadway, canoes in the K - 1, K - 2, K - 4 or C - 1 and C - 2 sizes can be ordered (as finished boats only) from Raymond Dodge, Competition Canoes, 1625 Broadway, Canoes, 1625 Broadway, Niles.

Down by the stream where birch - bark canoes are made and raced, and everyone (or at least those brave and adventure - seeking souls under the age of twelve) can take their first - of - the - season, wild and wonderful walk in the cold, fresh April stream.

A new boathouse along the Chicago River in Chinatown is handsome enough to make you wish that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to build more of these access points to the river was moving with speedboat swiftness, not the dawdling pace of a canoe.

It must have taken a lot of long, very hard work to do that,» Dunsmuir said.Since then, rains and increasing runoff have eroded the lake's banks and filled in the bottom, making it hard for residents to keep their canoes from going aground.

I made some (with the same amount of batter per muffin) in a canoe pan which the kids thought were fun and very easy to dip.

Collaborating this assertion, Mr. Ade Oduntan, the artist who designed the «From Ebute» statue, said his art work, which is about 30 feet tall installation of indigenous life size wooden canoe made in fiber glass depict the errant waterways and is meant to keep the memories of the use of canoe as a means of transportation.

In his remark on the «Community» statue, Mr. Sobayo of Terra KultureStudio said the art work made up of 57 canoes represent the 20 and the 37 Local Council Development Areas united as a State working together to achieve a common goal of a better Lagos without forgetting its roots embedded in the rivers of accord that the boat sails oIn his remark on the «Community» statue, Mr. Sobayo of Terra KultureStudio said the art work made up of 57 canoes represent the 20 and the 37 Local Council Development Areas united as a State working together to achieve a common goal of a better Lagos without forgetting its roots embedded in the rivers of accord that the boat sails oin the rivers of accord that the boat sails on.

We went to the Crawley session featuring Harriet Harman, got told by the pros not to bother at our place but pile in where we might make a difference, thought sod that for a game of soldiers and paddled our own canoe.

Polynesian sailors, carried over the waves in giant canoes, made landfall sometime between A.D. 800 and 1200.

Coconut is not only used for food sources, but the trees are also used in villages all around The Pacific and Asia for making canoes or building homes and shelter.

An unveiling of the Huracán Performante, which recently broke the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife track record for a production car (6:52.01), took place at an invitation - only event in the «Made in Italy» style atmosphere of Canoe Studios, overlooking the Hudson river in Chelsea, NY.

Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy rights advocate, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers.

«Canoes typically have high sides which could make it hard to get your dog back in if it jumps out,» says Henry, «where a kayak is lower to water and is easier to get the dog back in but doesn't usually have as much internal space.»

He then charmed his way up the mighty Whanganui River immersing himself in Māori culture and paddling his heart out with the crew of a traditional waka (canoe) called «The Queen» with 11 other paddlers — a journey that made for a spectacular arrival in the riverside city.

Starting in Fort William, through mysterious Loch Ness and the finishing line in Inverness, you will make your way through 73 miles (117 km) of stunning Scottish landscape by foot, canoe, sea kayak and bike.

Watch out for oncoming traffic — there are boat docks (have fun picking out which one you'd like to own if you were rich) and other people in kayaks / canoes so make sure you're alert and can change direction easily enough

They called the island Tuquan in the Chumash language, and for many centuries, they built and used sophisticated canoes, called tomols, made from sewn planks caulked with asphaltum (bitumen).

Back on the boat, four Kuna come by in an ulu, a hand - dug canoe made from the lumber of the Kuna Yala forest.

Guest activities include cultural hikes to the nearby petroglyph field, lei making ocean side on a grassy knoll, Hawaiian outrigger canoe paddling in the open ocean, stand up paddle boarding in the bay, snorkeling adventures and more.

A plank canoe constructed from redwood logs that floated down the coast and held together by yop, a glue - like substance made from pine pitch and asphaltum, and cords made of plant materials and animal sinews, the tomol ranged from eight to thirty feet in length and held three to ten people.

Can you imagine making that same journey in a canoe?

Group bookings are available — these can be tailor made to the specific needs of each group, ranging in time duration from introduction to kayaking sessions, skills development, training and assessment for Australian Canoeing Awards, team building and leadership activities or full day tours.

In addition to the plank canoe, the Chumash are known for their fine basketry, their mysterious cave paintings and their money made from shells.

This trade was made possible in part by the seagoing plank canoe, or tomol, which was invented about 2,000 years ago.

Luhui is Co-founder of the Chumash Maritime Association in Santa Barbara in 1997 and participated in the building of the first Chumash community owned tomol (traditional canoe) which made its journey across the Santa Barbara Channel from the mainland to Limuw (Santa Cruz Island), September 9, 2001 — the first time in over 150 years.

The villagers make regular trips to the Belize market, and if you're prepared to rough it in a dory (dug out canoe) and are in no hurry, you might be able arrange a ride.

Arriving on a beautifully decorated outrigger canoe, Santa and his Helpers will join resort guests in the merry - making planned for the day.

Relax in the lounge and watch the occasional boat or canoe make its way up river, or the abundant bird population swim leisurely by.

Other activities included in the stay: windsurfing, outrigger canoes, kayaks, bicycles, coconut tree climbing & husking show, ei (lei) making, hura (hula) dancing lessons, crab hunting, crab racing, fish feeding, snorkeling, giant chess, tennis, mountain biking, games room, board games, in - room movies, and a guest library.

The 33 - foot vessel is carved from a single koa log and is one of the last koa fishing canoes made in Hawaii.

In the keelboat fleet, Achilles 24 and GK 24 have the strongest presence and in the fast dinghy fleet, International Canoes, Catamarans and «Flying» International Moths make up the majoritIn the keelboat fleet, Achilles 24 and GK 24 have the strongest presence and in the fast dinghy fleet, International Canoes, Catamarans and «Flying» International Moths make up the majoritin the fast dinghy fleet, International Canoes, Catamarans and «Flying» International Moths make up the majority.

With access to Belizean Maya sites and even Tikal and Yaxha in Guatemala, caves, waterfalls, horseback riding to a cave, canoeing back downstream to the lodge, exploring deep into the Mayan underworld or looking for some of the more than 300 birds seen in the area and spending time in the adjacent Belize Botanic Gardens there is almost too much to do, so pay close attention to the hotel's motto «make sure you stay long enough» DuPlooy's is an eco lodge, located on the shores of the lovely Macal River in inland Belize, just a 35 minute flight or a 1-1/2 hour's drive from Belize City.

Members continued to make adventurous canoe cruises (upper photo), but increasing age made some think of more stable vessels, and in 1925 the first «canoe yawl» was introduced.

The Great Plains looks to make a return from the original Redemption, but this time it pales in size compared to the rest of the map, which is filled with new locations, far - off mountainous regions, and even small islands — possibly hinting at more canoe travel.

COMMUNITY BASED & COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK WITH ONAMAN COLLECTIVE Youth Art Mural Project: John F. Ross Secondary School, Guelph, ON (May 2016) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar & Oct 2015, Mar 2016) Words from the Land: Youth & Elders art retreat (Mar 2016) Youth Run for the Language (Oct 2015) The Painted Hand: Gathering to Feast Our Historic Alliances (Sept 2015) Reconciliation, Resurgence & Storytelling with Maria Campbell (Aug 2015) Canoe Building with Youth: Chippewas of the Thames (July / Aug 2015) Harvesting ochre & making paint (June 2015) Research with Elders on traditional knowledge and the language in Ontario & Saskatchewan (June & Aug 2015) Moosehide Tanning (April 2015) The Sacred Fisher Story: The Youth Mural Project (April 2015) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar 2015) Onaman Kendaagozid: Gathering about Sacred Paint (Feb 2015) Research into traditional Indigenous tattoos and face / body ochre paint (on - going) Collaborative creation of art pieces by Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt (on - going)

Christie's Nails a $ 127.7 Million London Contemp Sale — The auction house shot past its high estimate, setting records for Peter Doig ($ 11.9 million for a 1991 canvas, past the $ 10 million paid for a canoe painting in 2007 that briefly made him the world's most expensive living artist — and more than 20 times the amount the seller paid in 2002), Allen Jones ($ 3.4 million for a 1969 assemblage piece), and Pierre Soulages ($ 5.1 million for a 1961 black abstraction, which went for more than seven times its high estimate).

In each installation — the lyrical wall drawing made with firecrackers and fuses, or the perfectly polished half canoe, the clock that keeps a different time or an over-sized basketball court — he shows us a place where art and the community are «reconciled at a place of intersection.»

Fortunately, your art gallery catalogue tells you that Andre took his radical decision to make art flat on the floor in 1965, when canoeing on a lake in New Hampshire, and that this majestic pile of bricks exemplifies his artistic creed that «form = structure = place.»

Recent solo exhibitions include, «Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel» at Clifford Gallery, Colgate University (2011); «First Person Cinema» at University of Colorado (2010), as well as participation in many group shows and festivals, including «Artists of the Hudson Mohawk Region» at Albany Institute of Arts and Science (2011); «Made in New York» at the Schweinfurth Art Museum, Auburn NY (2011); «Stone Canoe» XL Projects Gallery, Syracuse (2011), and «UPPER» touring with the Black Maria Film Festival in Spring 2009.

That was before the explosion in Doig's market caused by a bidding war in February of 2007 where the artist's White Canoe made # 5.7 m against a pre-sale high estimate of # 1.2 m.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

In the event, it was incalculably worse and I have no doubt that Darling would like a trip in a canoe which makes him forget all about 200In the event, it was incalculably worse and I have no doubt that Darling would like a trip in a canoe which makes him forget all about 200in a canoe which makes him forget all about 2007.

Now that we've seen the viral video of the couple making love on a Toronto subway platform, we can ask — has anyone, other than Pierre Berton, ever made love in a canoe?

When I was in HS I work at a concession stand at a lake, making hotdogs, cotton candy and renting canoes... good memories.

An antique canoe replica makes an interesting design statement as a makeshift book rack in the new family room.