Canoeing With the Cree, too

A half-post:

In this morning’s Star Tribune, Nick Coleman writes about two high school students from Chaska who just set off to reenact Eric Sevareid’s epic canoe trip from the Minnesota River to Hudson Bay, recounted in Sevareid’s book Canoeing With the Cree.

As much as we might learn about chasing dreams and fulfilling goals and living vicariously from a couple eighteen-year-olds, I thought it apt to mention Jon Lurie’s heartfelt account of the same trip, which he undertook with a nineteen-year-old delinquent who’d been mixed up with a sawed-off shotgun and had to lay low for the summer. It appeared in the July 2007 issue of The Rake.