RWhitcomb-editor September 30, 2023 Enough to start working on a canoe? RWhitcomb-editor September 30, 2023 Painting by Elaine Farmer, the Amherst, N.H., based painter who owns White Birch Fine Art. Birchbark canoe at Abbe Museum, in Bar Harbor, Maine— Photo by Billy Hathorn At the Amherst, N.H., common, with the sort of Civil War statute you see in so many New England towns.