what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

As if you have nothing better to do. Plenty of free time on your empty hands. Here’s an idea to fill in the negative space. 

  

This book is about the 1936 UW crew that won the national championship and the right to represent the USA at the Olympics in Berlin, where they kicked ass and won a gold medal. 

 

Tina loaned me this a few weeks ago and now I believe it should be required reading for all UW students, perhaps even all high school students in the state of Washington. It covers a great deal of Pacific Northwest history. But also national and international history too. From the construction of Grand Coulee Dam to the nation’s struggles during the great depression to Hitler’s Germany pre WWII. This scrappy group of guys from Washington were perhaps the greatest crew in the history of crew. 

 

Soon to be a major motion picture (think Chariots of Fire on the Montlake Cut) But the book is better than anything tossed up on the silver screen.  and one more thing...

I’ve only just cracked the surface of this one but it’s narrative nonfiction at its best. The incredible story of a family with twelve children, six of them schizophrenic. 

 

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My brother in law read that book on the crew and fucking loved it. He was a few or more beers in when he told me how I had to read it because it is « so fucking awesome how these guys went in not even as underdogs but totally off the radar and fucking killed it. How their training on lake Washington in the winter totally prepared them. Dude it’s fucking awesome! Living in Seattle you have to read this book! » which I will report if my brother in law is suggesting a book that has nothing to do with the Grateful Dead then it’s going to be as good as Winter Dance by Gary Paulson.

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