LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

I am currently serializing my previously unpublished Volume 3 of LEGENDARY SURFERS on the surfing decade that was the 1930s. Please check-in frequently or subscribe via RSS for automatic notification of when new excerpts are posted and the ability to read them in your own newsreader.

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LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s

Surf Writings - 2010s

• "The Early History of Peruvian Surfing," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2010.

Surf Writings - 2000s

• "Alexander Hume Ford (1868-1945)," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2009.

• LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 2: Early Twentieth Century Surfing and Tom Blake, ©2007.
  
  
  

• "The 1920s," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2006.
  
  
  

• "The 1910s," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2005.
  
  
  

• LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 1: 2500 B.C. to 1910 A.D., ©2005. What's in Volume 1
  
  
  

• "Duke Paoa Kahanamoku," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1999, 2005.
  
  
  

• "The First Surfers," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Traditional Hawaiian Surf Culture," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Ancient Hawaiian Surfboards," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©1992-2005.
  
  
  

• "Gene 'Tarzan' Smith," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2005.
  
  
  

• "TARZAN REDUX: Chapter Fill-Ins From The Life of Gene Smith," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2004. Photographs from the Smith Family photo album.

• "GEORGE FREETH: Modern Surfing Revivalist,"
  Longboard Magazine, Volume 12, Number 4, May 2004.

• "Legends of The HotCurl," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2003.
  
  
  

• "DORA," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, self-published, ©2002.
  
  
  

• "The Malibu Board," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©2002.
  
  
  

• TOM BLAKE: The Journey of a Pioneer Waterman
  by Gary Lynch, Malcolm Gault-Williams and et al., ©2001.
  
  
  

• "TOMMY ZAHN: For The Pure Joy of It All," a chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Series in PDF format, ©2000.
  
  
  

• "Pulling Seaward: Tommy Zahn," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2000. Co-authored with Gary Lynch.
  
  
  

Surf Writings - 1990s

• "Last Chapter: 'Tarzan' Smith," The
  Surfer's Journal, Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 1998.


• "Doc Ball, Through the Master's Eye," Longboard Magazine, Volume 6, Number 4, August 1998.


• "Surf Drunk: The Wally Froiseth Story," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1997.


• "Fran Heath: The Forgotten Hot Curler," Longboard Magazine, Volume 5, Number 1, March/April 1997.


• "Woody Brown: Pilot, Surfer, Sailor," The Surfer's Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1996.


• "Early California Surfriders," Surfing Magazine, Volume 32, Number 10, October 1996.


• "Surfin' Da Net," Surfing Magazine, Volume 32, Number 3, March 1996.


• "Tom Blake and the Hollows," Longboard Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 3, Aug./Sep. 1995.


• "Old School Stash," Surfing Magazine, Volume 31, Number 7, July 1995.


• "Mo`ikeha at Maka`iwa," Kauai Magazine, Kaua`i, H & S Publishing, Kapa`a, Kaua`i, Hawai`i, Spring 1995.
  
  
  

Political Writings

• DON'T BANK ON AMERIKA: The History of the Isla Vista Riots of 1970, a.k.a. Sunshine Revolutionaries, self-published, Third Printing; ©1987, 2000, 2004.
  
  

• "Makin' Bacon," The Journal of College Radio, Volume 25, No. 1, published by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), Vails Gate, NY. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the indecency standards, November 1991.

• "FUNU -- Liberation War -- Continues in East Timor," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, now known as Critical Asian Studies, December 1990.

• "Strangers In Their Own Land," Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA, December 1990.

• "The Isla Vista Riots I, II & III," Isla Vista: A Citizen's History from an Indian Village to the 1990s, Isla Vista, CA, February 1990.

• "Flight To Freedom," Northern Sun News, July 1989.

• "Organisasi Papua Merdeka: The Free Papua Movement Lives," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, now known as Critical Asian Studies, October-December 1987.

• "Indonesia's genocidal invasion of East Timor," Northern Sun News, June 1987.

• "A 100-year Struggle," Third World, April 1987.

• "A History of I.V. I, II & III," Isla Vista Free Press, February 1987. Also February 1988 and 1989.

• "West Papuans fight for independence," Militant, January 1987.

• "Human rights under attack in East Timor," Militant, September 1986.

• "The war nobody's told you about: Indonesia in West Papua," Northern Sun News, November 1986.

• "Ten years of torture and murder hasn't stopped FRETILIN's fight," Guardian, July 1985.

Formal Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Area of study: Business Management, 1985-88; UNIX, 1997; Perl, 1998.
• University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, N.M. Area of study: Business Management, 1990-91.
• Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California; 1970, 1980, 1983-1984.
• University of Corpus Christi (UCC), Corpus Christi, Texas, 1968, 1971-1973; B.A., English, 1973. UCC is now known as Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, a two-year junior college.
• Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1969.
• Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 1967-1968.
• Smithtown Central High School, St. James, L.I., New York; 1966-1967
• Stamford High School, Stamford, Connecticut, 1964-1966.
• Turn-of-River Junior High, Stamford, Connecticut, 1963-1964
• Locust Valley High School, Locust Valley, L.I., New York, 1961-1963
• Bayville Elementary School, Bayville, L.I., New York, 1954-1961