Vintage 1940 National Whitewater Championship Film Footage with Zip Kellogg

The Come Boating! Adventure Series at the Belfast Free Library returns with a re-scheduled program – a screening of rare film footage from the 1940 National Whitewater Championships.

Maine canoeist Zip Kellogg will present the film featuring the First National Whitewater Canoe and Kayak Championships held here in Maine in 1940 on the legendary Rapid River. The film was missing for about 70 years and Zip found it down the road at the Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport. Zip puts the race in the context of its time using some informative and hilarious notes and letters he has turned up. This is an action packed film in which not everyone went home after the race with the same boat – if they took a boat at all!