It seems at times that log canoe regattas on the Eastern Shore have the appearance of a Ralph Lauren advertisement. With a disproportionate number of healthy young adults wearing clean polo shirts scrambling around canoe planks, it is hard to imagine that this magnificent Chesapeake tradition had a much more rough-and-tumble heritage, more rooted in the working towns of Rock Hall and St. Michaels, then Washington, DC gentlemen clubs.
Bob Hewes knows this first hand. As a Philadelphia Main Line family eager to find a getaway from the urban jungle, the Hewes and Johnson families, started to retreat to the Eastern Shore in the 1930s. And very early, Bob developed a lifelong love affair with log canoe while also discovering how hard it was to break into the one of the most exclusive clubs in the world.
The video is approximately nine minutes in length
Stacey Morris says
Editor,
I am writing on behalf of Mr. Robert M Hewes III, I was able to pull up the video for him to see. He was overwhelmed with joy! He is very grateful for you doing this and doing such a great job. You have captured some fine history on the log canoes from him, he is grateful to have been apart of this.
Stacey Morris
-care giver of Robert Hewes