Child-made Wooden Barge with String and Nail Rails Plus Cannon! hand-carved wooden (Winfield later moved to Santa

(Winfield later moved to Santa Monica

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Child-made Wooden Barge with String and Nail Rails Plus Cannon! hand-carved wooden (Winfield later moved to SantaI'm a real sucker for things things like this boat, which I can just see its young maker, Harry, laboring over with great zeal, so eager to transform his vision into tangible form. And I think he did a terrific job! Using nothing more than wood, nails, string and magic marker, he constructed quite a barge, complete with rotating canon at the helm, and these great rails all around the perimeter. My favorite, though, is the underside, where he has