Video: St. Croix River Pandemic Canoe Trip on US-Canada Border

New video by playak: “Hard tellin’, not knowin’.”

That frustrating little wink of Downeast wisdom, always uttered in the thickest of Maine accents, was the answer to most of our questions during three days on the St. Croix River in September 2020. How high is the water? How far to the next campsite? What’s it like canoeing a border river when the border is closed? Sometimes the question was a joke, other times a challenge, but essentially it meant: “Why waste time asking? Go find out for yours...