Word: birchbark
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...other journalist avoids the obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear...
...McPhee, a fine birchbark is a marvel of craft and complex preindustrial technology that took centuries to perfect. "Their ribs, thwarts and planking suggested cabinetwork," he notes. "Their authenticity seemed built in, sewed in, lashed in, undeniable...
Efficiency aside, who can resist a canoe that even comes in simulated birchbark? It's the call of the wild with all modern conveniences...
...Island to California's Disneyland, they are boffo as never before-perhaps because restless audiences, tired of passively watching so much canned and channeled entertainment, are eager for such tangible Freedomland features as an electromagnetic dragon, real buffalo grazing the prairies, honest Indians taking passengers for rides in birchbark Chippewa war canoes (the birch bark is actually Fiberglas, and the Chippewas are mainly Cherokees, recruited by Manhattan Cherokee Arthur Junaluska, the ranking redskin in New York). Freedomland's immigration fee is $1 (less for children), and 50^ is the top price for the individual attractions, which include...
Rocky Ground. For each work he spends months in research, more months in building up a mathematically scaled clay model, still more months at the easel or on the scaffold. A minute error can be heartbreaking. In a recent scale model, Benton had painted a birchbark canoe being set on the ground by a group of Indians. "People looking at it would ask right off what kind of damn fool Indians would be dragging a birchbark canoe across rocky ground. That changed the mural's entire design and set me back weeks. I had to do the model...