Every summer, sailing crews gather on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay tributaries to race vintage log canoes. One wrong move and these tippy 19th-century sailboats can flip over.

“It wasn’t pretty. I looked at it and I said ‘You know what, the log is asking me to make a canoe out of it,'” Bradley explained. “I can’t leave it. I was going to walk away from it ...

The craft is for a trip down the lower Snake River to connect the Palouse People and other tribes of the Snake and Columbia ...