Larry Meyer
Wooden Canoes are in the Blood
The Norumbega Chapter had its winter meeting yesterday and I’m sure I speak for all in thanking Dan Miller, in his capacity as a WCHA Board member, for trekking all the way from the environs of Albany to the wilds of Westwood, Mass to festoon our festivities. This was the first time we’ve been honored with such a visitation from the organizational power elite. The scope of our deliberations does not admit easy summation. Fitz scooped the annual chapter award (I think the fix was in, but never mind.) Certain chapter notables and worthies were conspicuously absent: we took our revenge by volunteering them for all sorts of heroic (and really boring) tasks. For our amusement, Ed Howard glued small blocks of wood together (see what you missed?) and displayed a birchbark canoe he’d just acquired. We revisited the great epoxy vs. TII debate and pondered ways of increasing chapter membership (maybe gluing LOTS of small wood block together.)
Thanks from all of us to Steve Lapey, who is keeping a firm grip on this chapter and inspiring us all.
Thanks from all of us to Steve Lapey, who is keeping a firm grip on this chapter and inspiring us all.