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...Wenonah Canoe, one of the largest canoe and kayak makers in the country, kayak sales outpaced those of canoes four years ago, according to president Rich Enochs. While canoes typically seat two people and are harder to steer, most kayaks are built for one, and after a 30-minute lesson, even novices can go faster than they could in a canoe. New activities like kayak fishing, in which fishers explore narrow creeks and waterways in specialized boats with more legroom, have helped boost sales. And Wenonah's Current Designs line features smaller vessels that are easier for shorter adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floating Your Own Boat | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Burr is survived by his wife Lucy Burr and her children Wenonah and David W. Devins, as well as three children from his first marriage to the late Nancy B. Pell: Samuel H. Burr, Nancy P. Hayden, and Alice N. Pell. He also leaves nine grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and another brother, John T. Burr...

Author: By Illeana Ojeda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Francis Burr, Harvard Corporation Chair, Dies at 90 | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...girl he loves, Wenonah Lindberg, says they plan to learn about safe sex * and will abstain from intercourse. Her parents have given their blessing to a Dec. 13 wedding in Texas, where 14-year-olds can legally marry. "She has a better chance of contracting HIV from dating than with Ricky," says her mother Debbie. "If she does, it's God's will." Adds Ricky's father: "All we want is for him to be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: Till Death Do Them Part: Till Death Do Them Part | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Ricky, one of three hemophiliac brothers thought to have contracted AIDS from tainted blood, wants Wenonah to share in a $1.4 million settlement his family won in 1987 from a Florida school district that barred the boys from classes. But Wenonah is hardly marrying for money: Ricky gets just $300 a month for 10 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: Till Death Do Them Part: Till Death Do Them Part | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...council ever had fishing rights in Chilmark. Although Tureen and all members of the tribal council insist that the document was only a draft, to be used as a basis for discussion during negotiations between the taxpayers association and the tribal council, its release angered factions on both sides. Wenonah Silva, tribal council president, charged that the draft's release was an attempt at sabotaging the negotiations by disgruntled tribal council members. Certainly the public discussion inflamed white fears, while further delineating the division within the Indian community...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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