Notes off a soiled cuff: 50 straight years of canoe trips for Pennsylvania’s Paul Misko an amazing tradition

Way back in August 1974, when Paul Misko started his 50-year unbroken string of annual canoe trips on the Juniata River, the Watergate scandal was peaking. U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation and Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th president. That was a different time, obviously.
When I met Misko in 1980, he owned a hole-in-the-wall bar-restaurant across the street from the Mirror newspaper building in downtown Altoona called the Eureka.

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