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Follow Christian, Ben, and Renee as they research trapping boats with boatbuilder Douglas Brooks. During the fur trade and more recently, dairy farmers of the Champlain Valley trapped muskrats in home-made boats for supplemental income. No documentation of these boats exist, and they are rotting away in barns. We set out to hear the oral history of muskrat trapping, photograph and draw plans of existing boats, and eventually build a boat or two of our own. Ben hopes to make an interactive map with video documenting the boats we find, and Christian and Renee plan to write historical journalism pieces for credit at Middlebury College.