2008.04.14
Mark Twain Surfed!
Well here’s something I never knew. Samuel Clemens, known throughout the world as Mark Twain, tried surfing in Hawaii over a century ago. Wow!
I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too; but missed the connection myself.—The board struck the shore in three quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me.
Awesome. How strange that surfing was known over a hundred years ago. Of course I often forget that The Duke was popularizing surfing a century ago, too.
Still, Mark Twain! Imagine if he had written a story about it?
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2 Responses to “Mark Twain Surfed!”
- CT says (April 15th, 2008 at 06:35:49 )
I always wished he would have incorporated that into his Great American Novels. Imagine Huck and Jim surfing down the Mississippi!
- douglas says (April 15th, 2008 at 07:46:35 )
Wake boarding with steam powered paddle boats… Nice!
