On May 21, 2016, the writing was on the wall—literally—as the Hood Museum celebrated its final days before closing for a multi-year renovation and expansion project.
In 1977 a Ledyard Canoe Club expedition was the first to navigate the entire 1,888-mile Rio Grande. Thirty-seven years later a second expedition retraced the strokes of these Dartmouth adventurers to chronicle the plight of a drought-plagued river.