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NE DAY TWO MEN decided to canoe around Martha's Vineyard — all the way 

 around. A look at the map vvdll illustrate what a distance that is, but equally 

 important is the fact that one side of the island is covered with tall cliffs and 

 offers absolutely no place to land. The fellows succeeded, just as a neuro- 

 physiologist recently succeeded in swimming the roughly ten miles to New 

 Bedford one day. The MBL community plays as intensely as it works. The 

 energy and camaraderie carry over from labs to seaside activities. 



Boaimq Trips and Beach Portks 



For a while in the early decades of the century, the young men and women 

 spent a great deal of time canoeing around the harbor or around the 

 Elizabeth Islands. Canoeing was the big fad at the time. They would paddle 



Canoeing at Hadley Harbor. 

 Photograph by Alfred F. 

 Huettner, MBL Archives. 



