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    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse: The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club
    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse: The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club
    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse: The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club
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    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse: The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club

    By Kathy Warnes

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    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse tells the story of the Ecorse Rowing Club which traces its beginnings to the rowing skills of the Montie Brothers in 1873 and chronicles how the small group of rowers in ten oared barges developed their art into rowing shells and international competition.
    Rafting The Waters is the story of how tiny Ecorse with the help of coaches Charles Tank and Jim Rice and its home town rowers developed team after team of championship rowers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathy Warnes
    Release dateApr 22, 2011
    ISBN9781458147479
    Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse: The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club
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    Kathy Warnes

    I was born and raised in a little town on the Detroit River called Ecorse, Michigan, and I have loved Michigan all of my life. Much of my writing is about Michigan and Great Lakes subjects as well as history.

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      Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse - Kathy Warnes

      Rafting The Waters And Pulling An Oar For Ecorse:

      The Story Of The Ecorse Rowing Club

      Published by Kathy Warnes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 by Kathy Warnes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One – The Beginnings of Ecorse Rowing

      Chapter Two - Ecorse Grows in Rowing Strength and Competition

      Chapter Three – Jim Rice and His Rowers

      Chapter Four – The Veterans Come Home and Row, Row, Row

      Chapter Five – Building Boats and Shells

      Chapter Six- The Ecorse Boat Club Grows With the 1950s and 1960s

      Chapter Seven- The Ecorse RowingClub Rows Into the 1970s and Beyond

      Chapter Eight- The Boat Club Building, Rowing Club Clubhouse

      Chapter Nine – The Ecorse Boat Club Begins

      Chapter Ten – The Ecorse Boat Club 1930-1939

      Chapter Eleven – The Ecorse Boat Club – 1940-1949

      Chapter Twelve –The Ecorse Boat Club – 1950-1959

      Chapter Thirteen -The Ecorse Boat Club, 1960-1969

      Chapter Fourteen-The Ecorse Boat Club, 1970-1979

      Chapter Fifteen –The Ecorse Rowing Club - 1980-1989

      Chapter Sixteen-The Ecorse Rowing Club – 1990-2000

      Chapter Seventeen – The Ecorse Rowing Club – 2001-2011

      Chapter Eighteen – Rowing Queens and Oarsmen’s Balls

      Rowing is An Art!

      Rowing a race is an art and not a frantic scramble. It must be rowed with head power as well as muscular power. From the first stroke, all thought of the other crew must be blocked out. Your thoughts must be directed to you and your own boat, always positively and never negatively. Row your optimum power every stroke, all the while trying to increase your optimum.

      Men as firm as you, when your everyday strength is gone, can draw on a mysterious reservoir of power far greater. Then it is you who can reach for the stars. That is the only way championships are made. That is the legacy rowing can leave you.

      George Pocock

      Chapter One –

      The Beginnings of Ecorse Rowing

      Since the time Indians and French voyagers paddled canoes down the green waters of the Detroit River to the Ecorse Creek centuries ago, Ecorse has been a maritime community. This maritime heritage has forged the social, economic and political destinies of Ecorse and other Downriver communities and shaped the personalities of both native and immigrant citizens. Rowing and regattas were and still are an important part of the maritime history of Ecorse and other Downriver communities that maritime historians often overlook. The history of rowing is woven into the history of Ecorse and the Ecorse Boat Club/Ecorse Rowing Club.

      For nearly two centuries, the Riviere de Ecorces, or Ecorse Creek, the marsh and farm land surrounding it and the village of Ecorse presented a rural face to the world. Apple, pear and peach trees that the early French settlers had planted showered blooms into its water. The marshlands that filled its mouth as it flowed into the Detroit River produced aromatic grasses that people used to feed their horses and cattle and even to stuff their mattresses. Settlers along its banks fished and caught frogs and gathered wild berries beside it. Several saw and gristmills and coal and brickyards dotted the banks of the creek, but there was not enough industry located along it to affect the flow or purity of its water.

      In 1901, G.A. Raupp of Ecorse, lumber dealer, guided a raft containing 2,500,000 feet of pine, hemlock, spruce and tamarack logs coming down the St. Clair River for use in his mill. One of G.A. Raupp’s other endeavors, the Ecorse Rowing Club, proved to be even more lasting than his mill which went out of business in mid century. He was one of its founding fathers and helped organize its first crew in 1873.

      The Wah-Wah-Tah-Shee Club and the Montie Brothers

      Less than a decade after the close of the Civil War, Ecorse became rowing conscious. Shells were unheard of in those early days, but huge crowds lined the river front to watch the competition of the first ten oar barge and later the eight and even six oar barge races that eventually turned the eyes of the world to Ecorse. Contemporary observers said that the interest in training created in this sport that eventually led to the world championships won by the famous Montie brothers is what fanned the interest in rowing, not the large crews and cumbersome barges.

      The names of some of the first rowers and generations of championship rowers also appear on the 1876 map as owners of farms and land near Ecorse Creek. They include Beaubien, LeBlanc, Champagne, and Montie. Richard LeBlanc was one of the first to visualize the possibilities of a rowing club in Ecorse. He promoted the idea among his friends and in 1873, they organized a rowing club of less than twenty members. They called their organization the Wah-Wah-Tah-Shee Club, an Indian name for Indian names were the general custom in those days.

      The original membership of the Wah-Wah-Tah Shee Boat Club, the forerunner of the Ecorse Boat Club, that was organized in the early 1880s. The Montie brothers, who brought fame and glory to Ecorse through their championship performances in both barges and shells, are included in the picture. These men represented Ecorse in the old Northwestern regattas held in the central states and regularly won championships. Front row left to right are William Montie,

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