FDR and Tomah Joseph

Deborah found a delightfully illustrated canoe book at the Dover-Foxcroft library – a child’s book about the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Passquamoddy chief, canoe-builder, and guide Tomah Joseph. It would make a great gift for a pre-teen.


The book features the canoe now hanging in the entrance to the visitor center. The book mentions a birchbark on the porch at Campobello, but the canoe now on the Canpobello porch, also built by Tomah Joseph, is not the one featured in the book.

 

Tomah Joseph also had a book published about birchbark canoes, including decorative winterbark etching and quillwork; https://www.amazon.ca/History-Birchbark-Passamaquoddy-Haffenreffer-Anthropology/dp/B0006P55TK

My copy is hiding somewhere.