Ep41: Canoes and Canoodling on the Charles River (Aug 14, 2017)

During a late nineteenth century canoe craze, recreational canoeing became Boston's hottest leisure time activity.  Young lovers took advantage of the privacy and intimacy of a canoe to engage in a little bit of illicit romance, leading a humorless state police agency to ban kissing in canoes on the Charles River. Show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/041