Last summer, I visited the Wooden Boat Show, held at the historic Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut. Among the hundreds of exhibitors displaying their hand-crafted wooden boats, equipment and supplies was a group of teenagers from the Bronx. They used their time at the show to actually build one of their boats on-site, using hand tools [...]
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