For those of us whose spirits would wither away without wild country in which to renew ourselves, Jimmy Carter’s greatest legacy is to be found in the rivers that remain free-flowing and the great swaths of protected Alaska land that allow the caribou and grizzly to roam…
Nov 9, 2019: Paddler’s Night at the Museum
Slideshow by Doug about paddling in the ’60s and ’70s, with special features on Deliverance, Jimmy Carter, Payson and Aurelia Kennedy, and the short documentary The Important Places.
The Important Places
The Important Places will grab you by the heart! This 10 minute video is a river story, but so much more. It is a tribute to the love between child and parent, and just might bring tears to your eyes. My son Forest, knowing that I had kayaked the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon […]
Accolades for Wherever Waters Flow
Review excerpts from the back cover of the book from Jimmy Carter, John Lane, Payson Kennedy, Claude Terry and Christopher Dickey…
Born to Paddle
Several families relate the joys of connecting to Nature via paddling. Canyon and Forest Woodward’s earliest days of paddling are recounted…
A Storm To Remember
A September canoe trip on the Bowron Lakes of British Columbia. Four adults, a two-year old and… well, it wouldn’t be as interesting a story if everything had gone as planned and the rain and wind hadn’t held a big party on the lakes that week…
The cover of an NRS catalog
Well, what a surprise in my mailbox!…
Circling Back
In 1970, Doug Woodward paddled his homemade kayak through the Grand Canyon. Though he continued to run rivers over the next four decades, he never expected to feel the whitewater of the Colorado again. His son Forest would change that…
Paddling for Deliverance
“James Dickey changed my life. He never knew that. And at the time, I didn’t even know it myself. But as surely as Dickey could put swashbucking thoughts to paper and then morph them into his own persona, his words also became a part of who I was. I met him only once. It was on a crisp autumn evening…”
The Deliverance Question
As the Chattooga River Festival quickly approaches, (June 22 – 24, 2012), there has been much soul-searching by the organizers concerning the choice of Deliverance as the overriding theme. With this summer marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Deliverance on the big screen, it seemed a logical choice to make the movie the drawing card.
But the questions being asked by the media giving publicity to this event have given the organizers pause. Basically, “Is there still significant resentment by Rabun County residents over how Deliverance depicted mountain people?” This prompted me to write my own take on the issue.
