Little and Often

Most of us know or can imagine the profound impact of the death of a parent — the grief, the disorientation and the questions that may never have answers. Trent Preszler took all those emotions, the companionship of a lively dog named Caper, an inherited box of tools, and decided to devote a year of his mourning to the building of an appropriately beautiful, ocean-worthy wooden canoe as testament to the father he both loved and wrestled with. A bit of Shop Class as Soulcraft, a dash of John Casey’s Spartina, wholly its own hard fought yet magical journey.