White Oak Mountain Ranger: Two Rivers
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.” Sonia Johnson
“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.” Henry David Thoreau
The keel of the canoe softly scraped the shallow stone making the only sound in the early morning darkness. The paddles were virtually silent as we oozed into the blackness of the Tennessee River. Light to the east was so hard to come by that the horizon above the river edge was only faintly visible.