This pic is my main blog profile pic and it got lumped into this album. I'm not sure if I should delete it. Anyway, it was taken when I finally learned how to roll a kayak in 2007, thanks in large part to this stunt on the grass. It gave me an eyes-open sense of what was usually happening underwater. (Lindy thought it was funny and snapped this pic.)
I paddled to and from the Island in this kayak, the "Log Boat," a Seda Glider wood-strip knock-off---at 19 feet and 22" it's superfast. See the Big Mac bridge?
Making rattles.
Making kayak hats out of birch bark, Inuit style.
Storytelling.
The trade blanket. (Donate something then draw a number and pick something!)
The big auction. (George, the auctioneer, is secretly bidding on a knife that he's also pitching. Top winners in the background, clearly.)
Glen teaches iron forging.
That iron being hammered is RED hot, as are the items in the forge at back.
Swordfighter learns forging.
Abe Elias, the master knifemaker of Diving Sparrow Knifeworks, at work on the group knife.
More work on the group knife.
Demetri, amazing person. Articulate, generous, eager. 4. (See him in action at http://youtube.com/jeffoyb.)
Demetri, King Bucket-head and Lucy.
Children of the Corn
Can't keep kids out of the water even when it's cold and windy. They just gotta swim.
After a day of play, sleep came in about 1 minute and lasted awhile.
TRUE: most of the kids carried and used sizeable knives every day, and played with sticks, and there was only one small cut and no crying...and much fun and getting along.
Sue Pufpaff and friend. Sue did the yurt and the felting action.
The flintknapper's tent.
Trap-making class, courtesy of Eric Vosteen (left) of BurntMud.com and George Hedgepeth of BriarPatchOutdoors.com.
Felting in the yurt.
Walking to the tent.
Moon reflection.
Eric Vosteen of BurntMud.com honchos the late night pottery action while King Bucket-head looks on.
Stoking the fire to turn the clay pots into ceramic.
Glowing pots after the 10-foot-tall firing fire died down.
What was left after George packed his lean-to tarp.
Jason's tarp.
Artwork from the classic "Codex Canadiensis" (1700) showing amazing Indians and their pipes and tattoos. (At the roadside Marquette Memorial next to the Bridge in St. Ignace.)
