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Article: Kayak boom shows no signs of slowing down.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2003
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Byline: Don Sapatkin
PHILADELPHIA _ Ruth Jones was 9 years old when her parents started the first canoe-rental place on the Delaware River.
She's seen it all since 1941: The successful fight to block what would have been the waterway's only dam, authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The rise of the canoe, propelled by the 1972 release of the movie Deliverance ("People came with their banjoes!"), and its subsequent decline through the 1990s.
Now it's kayaks.
"I'm a canoeist," Jones, 70, said from her headquarters at Dingmans Ferry, Pa. "But sometimes when I want to go out and I don't have a partner I tell the girls, `I'm ...