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BIG WE DN ESDA from N E W JE RSE Y to E AST AFR ICA
BIG WEDNESDAY – from NEW JERSEY to EAST AFRICA
No Surf in New Jersey? I Heard There Were No Waves in
New Jersey
New Jersey was edited by Danny Dimauro and
surfer/photogra- Johan Kegelberg and is available at the
Museum Store for $55.
pher and Hall-
of-Famer Mark The images were sourced
Neustadter from the New Jersey Surf
appeared before Museum and the New Jersey
a large audience Hall of Fame, as well as from
on August 28, and private collections.
shared a selection
of images from the Neustadter welcomed the guests with this comment:
recently released “The book is an eye-opener because people don’t
book necessarily think of New Jersey as a hot spot to surf.”
“I Heard There “Hawaii and California have
Were No Waves in always had top surfing billing in
New Jersey.” the U.S., but the reality is that
A glossy coffee a surfing culture developed in
table book,“Waves” New Jersey and other areas of
is essentially a the East Coast. That has had a
spread of interest- measurable impact on the
ing photographs history of the sport.”
celebrating East
Coast surf culture Mark’s informative talk
from its earliest days in the late 1800s to its heyday in prompted significant input from
the 1980s, when skateboarding’s influence was added those present.
to the scene.

Swahilia: Searching for Surf in East Africa

Filled with black and white
Oregon-based surfer/poet/videographer Michael images of Kew’s sojourn,
H. Kew has traveled far and wide, from bone-chilling Swahilia is
snow-packed latitudes to exotic, far-flung warm-water available at the museum
store for $18.95
locations – all in search of those off-the-wall surfing After being introduced
experiences. at CSM, he began by
On August 8, he presented is most recent book – reminding his guests: “The Swahilia Coast is not a
Swahilia – at CSM, and offered his version of a very true surf destination. Too windy, too misplaced in the
unique surf journey. ground-swell sphere.”
Having explored that area of East Africa and the But the lure was strong enough to bring him back,
Indian Ocean two decades earlier, Kew found and the result is a captivating book that is barely able
himself compelled to return. to contain Kew’s quirky observations.
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