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University of Massachusetts Amherst

1996

Sporting Camps

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The Survival Of Sporting Camps - Planning For The Preservation Of A Cultural Resource, Stephen A. Cole Sep 1996

The Survival Of Sporting Camps - Planning For The Preservation Of A Cultural Resource, Stephen A. Cole

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

In 1989, I was asked to research the origins of the Rangeley Lakes boat by the Rockport Apprenticeshop, a boatbuilding school in midcoast Maine. The apprentice boatbuilders were completing one of these wooden, lapstraked craft for a sportsman who had fished the Rangeley Lakes in the western mountains of Maine for years. Along with his Rangeley, the gentleman wanted to know when and how this boat designed for pursuing brook trout and landlocked salmon had evolved. My search for the Rangeley's origins lead me to a backwoods institution I had not previously been aware of: the sporting camp. A sporting …