Decades before I even knew of this story or knew of John Young, I had an experience that kind of drives part of this story home for me. In the mid 1970's' while I was in my teens, my uncle and I went on a canoe trip on the Kanawha River to do some fishing. We put in at Pratt and were going to get out at East Bank. Im guessing a five miles distance, it's been a long time. About an hour into our fishing trip the"sky fell in"! It rained so hard that it hurt. The canoe actually started to fill with water and it was almost impossible to paddle. Giving up on bailing and attempting to paddle, we got out of the canoe and waded the last two miles or so to EastBank. John Young managed to go much farther with his wife and baby during a storm, in the canoe full of water during his escape. He also paddled upstream against the current on the Kanawha while his 4th and 5th great grandsons couldn't even go two miles downstream, with the current!
Decades before I even knew of this story or knew of John Young, I had an experience that kind of drives part of this story home for me. In the mid 1970's' while I was in my teens, my uncle and I went on a canoe trip on the Kanawha River to do some fishing. We put in at Pratt and were going to get out at East Bank. Im guessing a five miles distance, it's been a long time. About an hour into our fishing trip the"sky fell in"! It rained so hard that it hurt. The canoe actually started to fill with water and it was almost impossible to paddle. Giving up on bailing and attempting to paddle, we got out of the canoe and waded the last two miles or so to EastBank. John Young managed to go much farther with his wife and baby during a storm, in the canoe full of water during his escape. He also paddled upstream against the current on the Kanawha while his 4th and 5th great grandsons couldn't even go two miles downstream, with the current!
Amazing! Destiny!