Published: December, 2009 Construction crews moved nearly 7,000 tons of steel at the Bay Bridge construction site on Yerba Buena Island over Labor Day weekend in September 2009. The job called for realigning the path of the old East Span by removing a massive double-deck piece of the bridge, and sliding in the last link […]
By Paul Duclos Published: December, 2015 Many admirers of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (and the author of this column is among them) may not know that before he became identified with the cultural underground, his area of concentration was underwater. As a commanding officer on a U.S. Navy sub-chaser during D-Day, Ferlinghetti became intimately acquainted with the […]
Published: July, 2015 African and South American tribes with river and coastal cultures have paddled while standing up in canoes and rafts for thousands of years. However, the stand-up paddleboard sport that we see today began taking off in the United States around 2005. The first production paddleboards were brought to market in 2006 and […]
