![]() ![]() So McPhee visited Henri Vaillancourt in Greenville, spent time watching him work, and arranged to take a canoe trip with Vaillancourt the next time he had a finished product that needed to be tested out. An ad for someone obsessing over ancient Native American methods of constructing birch bark canoes was squarely in McPhee’s wheelhouse. By this point McPhee was a dozen books into an eclectic career pursuing subjects both large (oranges, Alaska) and eccentric (cattle branding, US Merchant Marine). ![]() In 1975, a small note in the back of the newsletter of the Canoe Cruisers Association attracted the attention of Pulitzer Prize winning author John McPhee. Four trips isn’t that many, though it’s probably more than the average person. By the time he was 25 years old, Henri Vaillancourt of Greenville, New Hampshire had been on four canoe trips. ![]()
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