‘Kids build boats... boats build kids’
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Brianna Hickson on a handmade Whitehall rowing boat, a kind used for ferrying goods across the rivers and to and from sailing ships in the New York Harbor at the turn of the last century.
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Program Assistant Daniel Martinez Patiño, 22, prepares equipment for a class.
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Students take “Knowledge,” a Whitehall rowing boat, out on the Bronx River on Aug. 22.
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Program Assistant Victoria Swedin gets summer campers ready to row.
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Arnold Okyere, 11, learns to fish with a weir, top photo.
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Arnold Okyere and Julio Phipps, 11, carry their boat and equipment to and from the water.
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Rocking the Boat offers kids from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to gain life skills as they learn boat-building and knowledge of the water. Next Saturday is the last chance this summer to take a row with them on the Bronx River. Visit www.rockingtheboat.org for more information. See more photos at riverdalepress.com
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