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Some Like It Cold
Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest
William Povletich
Surf's up in this remarkable and humorous tale of the Williams brothers, who helped transform the icy waters of Lake Michigan into an unexpected surfing destination.
256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 46 b&w photos
Paperback: $16.95 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-746-4
Ebook: $15.99 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-747-1
Publication Date: 4/17/2016
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Description
Some Like It Cold chronicles the true story of twin brothers Lee and Larry Williams, whose love of surfing evolved in the most unlikely of geographies: off the shores of Lake Michigan. From their boyhood home in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the brothers trekked to the local beach with their longboards and their dreams to master the waves at spots like the Elbow and the Cove. The next six decades proved that their zeal for catching grinders and barrels was much more than a hobby.
Surfing in the cold has its challenges, and Lee and Larry recall stories of freak storms, ice-encrusted beaches, and near drownings, along with the usual hypothermia, helped but not cured by their customized cold-water wetsuits. Despite living nearly 2,000 miles from either coast, Lee and Larry have made a lifestyle out of freshwater surfing, recreating their hometown as “The Malibu of the Midwest” and gaining international fame as the hosts of the Dairyland Surf Classic.
With humor and wit, author William Povletich brings their tale of revolutionizing surf culture to the page.
Author Bio
William Povletich
Wisconsin-native William Povletich has a wide array of experience in the film and television industry and as an author and writer. His documentary film Henry Aaron’s Summer Up North was an official selection to the 2006 National Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival and the 2005 Wisconsin Film Festival. Povletich was also an executive producer on the one-hour television special Milwaukee Braves: The Golden Legacy for Fox Sports Net, the exclusive fiftieth-anniversary tribute to the 1957 World Series champions. His History Channel documentary Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?, earned a 2005 Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination. He is also the author of Green Bay Packers: Legends in Green and Gold, Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak, and magazine articles about Road America, The Wizard of Oz, and other topics. Povletich lives in Los Angeles.
If everybody had a Great Lake, across the USA, then everybody’d be surfin,’ like those guys in Wisconsin. Brats and babes. Rolling out the barrel and shooting the curl. Read all about fifty years of surfing the Great Lakes in Bill Povletich’s brrrrrrrilliant, Gidget-goes-Sheboygan book: ‘Some Like It Cold.’
“Some Like It Cold breathes life into a little-known pocket of American surf culture based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Povletich offers vivid textures of a surf tribe entirely unique to this region, making this work a valuable addition to the collective narrative of surfing worldwide.”
—Zach Weisberg, founder of the Inertia: Surfing’s Definitive Community
“Povletich has obviously done his homework here, taking the time to document Lee and Larry Williams with all of their quirks, backfires, joys, and heartbreaks. This is an interesting, off-the-beaten-path tale of a rugged coastline serving her brethren—and doing it quite well, thank you.”
—Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate, Eastern Surf Magazine
Some Like It Cold
Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest
William Povletich
256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 46 b&w photos
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