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The Birth of Fiberglass Boats
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 Jeff and Nancy Larson enjoy their 1965 Pearson Vanguard, Nordhavn, the 32-foot big sister of the Triton. The Vanguard was introduced in 1962. Despite the popular notion today, fiberglass and plastic resins were not “new” technology in the mid-1950s, nor was Clinton Pearson the first person to use them to build sailboats. This begs the question: who did build the first fiberglass sailboat?
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 Pearson 10M, at far left, Pearson 26, at right. Both photos from Pearson marketing materials dated 1977. Our thanks to Tom Hazelhurst for sharing these treasures. It’s a familiar story to sailing buffs. The Pearson cousins, Clinton and Everett, began the modern era of fiberglass production sailboats at the New York Boat Show, in January 1959, with the introduction of the Carl Alberg-designed Triton.
Catalina Yachts: One big family
Issue 16 : Jan/Feb 2001 Catalina 22, hull #1, sails in the One of a Kind Regatta on Lake Michigan in 1970. The crew, from left: Rod Mortenson, Beattie Purcell, Lee Buffum, and Herbie Mortenson. Call the Woodland Hills headquarters of Catalina Yachts in California, and one thing strikes you right away about the choices the telephone answering system offers you. One option is for Frank Butler.
The Remarkable Olin Stephens
Issue 21 : Nov/Dec 2001 Stormy Weather in the Miami – Nassau Race, 1938. His nametag for the 15th annual Chesapeake Sailing and Yacht Symposium held in Annapolis gave his affiliation simply as “retired.” But for famed yacht designer Olin Stephens, that word’s not in his vocabulary. At the age of 93, after one of the most illustrious careers imaginable, he is still actively pursuing his lifelong passion — designing fast, safe sailboats, whether for racing or cruising.
A MISTRUST OF ARRIVAL
An insightful and novel memoir ideal for readers with active Letterboxd accounts. Mitchell pairs film criticism with memoir in this collection of personal essays. Mitchell gathers an assortment of essays combining film criticism with personal narrative, covering topics such as his lifelong disabilities, personal relationships, and general existential crises. The films he covers are diverse, leaning mostly independent (with some mainstream classics).
Thomas Gillmer
Issue 25 : Jul/Aug 2002 Tom Gillmer and his current boat, a 30-foot version of his Blue Moon design. The Allied Seawind, Apogee, below, leaving Cape Town, South Africa, on the last leg of her circumnavigation. Alan Eddy at the helm. The early days if productions fiberglass boats were an exciting time based on the accounts of some of those early pioneers.
Bill Crealock up close
Issue 31 : Jul/Aug 2003 Do you ever wonder what goes through a yacht designer’s mind while reading a review of one of his boats? If you’re Bill Crealock, it’s often this: “I’m always pleased,” he says with a smile, “when a reviewer says one of my boats must have been designed by someone who spent some time at sea.” There’s a reason for this pleasure. Boats have played an important part in three generations of the Crealock family.
Mitchell: Trump's Iran war dilemma could hurt Republicans
Steve Mitchell March 19, 2026, 8:02 p.m. ET View Comments President Donald Trump finds himself in a real conundrum. After running against “forever wars” and “boots on the ground,” he has led the United States into a war against Iran. And although the U.S. and Israel have complete air control over Iran and have obliterated more than 6,000 targets with total impunity, the endgame continues to be elusive.
The Mandate Period, Redux
To state the obvious, the anti-Semitic hatred that has exploded in the face of the diaspora has ended the roughly seventy-five year ‘Golden Age’ of Western Jewry. This has sent a lot of diaspora Jews, me included, looking for a historical parallel to bring clarity and tell us exactly what ‘Age’ we are in now. Many of us understandably reference ’never again’ and the Holocaust. Yet, the likelihood of the current situation rising in the West to mimic the Holocaust is, in my opinion, quite slim.
A ★★★★ review of King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen ★★★★ Liked What a career and what a guy! Larry Cohen showed that being a creative includes compromise and risk-tasking. Inspiring stuff!
Mitchell: Democratic wins are a grim harbinger for Republicans in 2026
It was apparent early on Nov. 4, as votes rolled in from New Jersey and Virginia, that a chill had settled over Republican strategists: Democrats swept the governorships in both states. Mikie Sherrill’s strong win in New Jersey, building on Phil Murphy’s progressive legacy, and Abigail Spanberger’s decisive victory in Virginia over Winsome Earle-Sears signal not just a blue wave in these bellwether states, but a seismic warning for the GOP’s grip on power. History often predicts today’s politics.
Mitchell: Is abortion a moot point in Michigan?
Steve Mitchell The Detroit News View Comments In 2022, voters passed statewide ballot Proposal 3 that amended the Michigan Constitution to legalize abortion for any reason at any time. The 2024 election results show that both pro-life and pro-choice voters now appear to understand that abortion — one of the most divisive issues for more than six decades — is finally settled in Michigan. Most pro-life voters will continue to vote Republican and most pro-choice voters, Democrat.
2024 Cpt. Seth Mitchell Hero 5K Scholarship Update
by Steve Mitchell Since 2010 a core group of Seth Mitchell‚Äôs friends from Loveland High School’s class of ‚Äô97, have hosted the Captain Seth Mitchell Hero 5k in Loveland. Like many high schoolers, Seth participated in sports, club activities and was the Senior Class president along with being voted ‚ÄúMr. Personality‚ÄĚ by the class of ‚Äė97.
The Interstate Highway System at 50
When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, they didn't just drop anchor, row ashore and hop onto Interstate 93 on their way to settle the New World. Yet most folks figure the nation's interstates have been here forever, says John Horsley, executive director for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. While these remarkable roadways have been around longer than most of the truckers and travelers who drive on them, they're actually quite young.
Doing a Lot with a Little or Very Little with a Lot: Small Presses, Contests, and Scams
Winning Writers has been hosting literary contests for over 20 years. I was frustrated to read this paragraph, which suggests that contests have an extremely high profit margin: "Contests are big business. If 300 people pay $30 each for a novel contest, the press takes in $9000. Let’s say they pay a judge $500 to read the top three and choose one. The prize money may be $500, even $1000.
Doing a Lot with a Little or Very Little with a Lot: Small Presses, Contests, and Scams
Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. Publishing is a precarious, and sometimes obscure, business and many in it are there because they have a ridiculous and abiding love for what they do. Likewise, there are all kinds of authors, trying to get published, who don't know a lot about the business yet also have a ridiculous and abiding love for what they do.
Opinion: The United States must defend Ukraine from Russian aggression
We have seen the events in Ukraine play out before. First, Adolf Hitler “negotiated” an Anschluss with Austria, reuniting the two Germanic speaking nations in March 1938. Then, when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia six months later, he told the world that Germany needed “lebensraum,” living space.
The Edge of the Noise
I’ve had too much to drink and fumble my way to the relative hush of Rachel’s room, dropping onto the bed with my arm over my eyes, but Malcolm finds me. He sits on the edge of the bed. Coats are piled nearby like shed skins. I moan and turn into them, a stray bit of fur tickling my nose. I want to be still, to hold myself motionless so the room will stop turning. I feel stupid, but I always feel stupid when I drink too much.
Wheel of Sleep by Steve Mitchell
“The only things I could rely on during my forty days in the desert were those I’d already acquired and the voices—in music, in film, in books—of those who fashioned something from their darkness and joy.” In Steve Mitchell’s essay “Wheel of Sleep,” Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia becomes a lens for insights into a period of darkness and “unrelenting heaviness” in the writer’s life.
Never Far Enough
First, her lips as she applies lipstick, smiling into the mirror. An instant later she realizes there’s no one to see her smile and she drops to the bed, grasping the bars of the footboard as if they are those of a prison cell. Her face bears an animal desperation, her body is coiled in restlessness, she can’t keep still. In a moment, she glances out of the window to see Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) about to steal her mother’s car. He will be her deliverer.
Steve Mitchell: Supreme Court ruling on abortion continued America’s moral stain
Monday, around lunchtime, I had the TV on in the background while I was doing some other things in the house when I overheard this very touching and somber music. I happened to turn to see what was on the screen, and it was one of those Sarah McLachlan-style animal rights commercials with touching and sad images of dogs and cats with a narrator talking about the abuse of animals and the need for all of us to care about their plight.
Roberto Carlos' OTHER great goal & 4 more strikes from very tight angles
It’s Roberto Carlos’ birthday, which means your entire Twitter timeline has probably been sharing clips of his banana-kick goal against France, as is tradition. Read More: Levy Plans to Use Kane & Son in ‘Life-Size Table Football’ During Lockdown However, by obsessing about the Brazilian’s strike in Le Tournoi, we ignore his other moments of attacking brilliance.
Still Another Writer Writing About Writing
Every piece of fiction should begin with the same proviso: There is no real, compelling reason why you should read this. Nevertheless, here it is. This is what I wrote. All of us, all the writers, are standing over here on the sideline waving our arms enthusiastically, yelling: Me! Me! Pick me! We're all afraid we'll be the last belatedly added to the team. Or that the teams will be filled before we're chosen at all. Sometimes, we're jealous, angry. Humiliated. Sometimes.
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Former Miami-Dade School Board member, 81, bewilders community after bizarre Sunday
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, file photo, then-District 2 school board candidate Solomon Stinson campaigns during a rally stop at Sunkist Grove Community Center in North Miami, Florida. Police in Florida say that Stinson, an 81-year-old former Miami-Dade educator and school board member, shot at officers during a chase before crashing his car, Sunday, June 2, 2019.
An interview with "Rising Out of Hatred" author Eli Saslow
“A Hard Decision He’s Always Trying to Make” Eli Saslow’s new book, Rising Out of Hatred, explores the transformation of Derek Black from a virulent White Supremacist to a man who speaks out against the ideology. Derek is the son of Don Black, former Grand Imperial Wizard of the KKK and founder of Stormfront, once the most popular Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist website in the world.
411MANIA | King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen Review
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen, written and directed by Steve Mitchell, is a wonderful documentary that looks at the life and career of renowned writer and director Larry Cohen, the man behind such classic exploitation flicks as Black Caesar, Q: The Winged Serpent, the It’s Alive trilogy, The Stuff, and more.
68 Days in ’68 That Changed the World
When people woke up on March 31, 1968, none of them knew they were about to enter a 68-day period that would change the world and the trajectory of history.
Rattling the eyes through ‘Observational Abstraction’
Katie St. Clair is an assistant professor of art at Davidson College. She’s tall, slim and her hands are constantly in motion as she speaks. She arrived at a rapt crowd on Oct. 27 in the InFocus Gallery at GreenHill, located at 200 N. Davie St. Her show is titled “Observational Abstraction” and includes work by St. Clair, Kirk Fanelly, Murry Handler, Désirée Petty and Bayley Wharton. The show runs until Nov.5 at Green Hill.
South and West: Undiscovered Landscapes with Joan Didion
I grew up with Joan Didion, you could say. I am saying. I don’t know her, I never met her, but she came along at a time in my life when she was completely necessary and her writing changed me, has continued to change me, in the way we can be changed by someone’s work which is at the same time completely alien and totally familiar. In the late ’70’s when I stumbled upon Slouching Toward Bethlehem, women writers were still an anomaly, or seemed that way to me.
THE SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHIC OF RACE
“When I was in sixth grade, I went to Tweetsie Railroad with a friend and his family. They were white. Back then, you got to dress up when you were there. We both wanted to be cowboys but the woman helping us looked at me and said, You’ll make a better Indian. And that’s what she gave me. The Indian costume.” Luis Medina is mixed race. His father is Puerto Rican, his mother Korean. His partner, Jess, is white. They have a young daughter together.
A Simple Story by Leila Guerriero
“This is the story of a man who took part in a dance competition.” A Simple Story by Leila Guerriero, translated by Frances Riddle, (New Directions, $14.95, 128 pages) really is as direct and cogent as the first sentence of the book. The dance is the malambo, obscure even in its native Argentina. It’s a centuries old gaucho dance performed in groups of two or four, or the most preternaturally demanding, alone.
STAY VISIBLE | YES! Weekly
The Current Administration is taking us for a ride. It’s only been six weeks or so, but we’ve come a long way. Links are provided in the online version of this article.
Michael Robinson uncovers an alternate history
Storybooth: Skin is a four part series about negotiating color in the Contemporary South by Steve Mitchell and Deonna Kelli Sayed. Both Mitchell and Sayed are white. Michael Robinson was 8 or 9 years old when a friend from the neighborhood confronted him: “Why do you act that way? Why are you trying to be white?” “I’m thinking, What? I was spinning,” Michael remembers, “and I go talk to my uncle.
Stay Uncomfortable
I didn’t vote for him but we elected him. We, the people who live in this country. I’m a part of that We and nothing will convince me I’m not. This we-ness is a thing many factions on all sides would like us to forget, yet this we-ness is what makes a country a country. It allows us to learn and grow with each other; it brings us together in joy and sorrow.
Secondhand Time recounts the chaos of a collapsed state
Perestroika began as a conscious attempt to restructure the economy of the Soviet Union in response to weak growth and declining production. Over the course of six years Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to guide the economy into becoming a bastard child of both communism and capitalism, but capitalism won and, in that winning, the Soviet Union collapsed. What had been promised, by Gorbachev and Yeltsin after him, was a glorious age of personal freedom and the free market.
Thank You, Clemson
I’ll never forget it: all of that celebration. The game-clock striking double zeros, and everyone rushing the field. The confetti streaming down from above. The Gatorade showers, and the group hugs, and the student section singing the fight song at the top of their lungs. All the championship hats and championship shirts. The interviews. The trophy presentations. Even those little custom newspapers with the headlines that read, NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. I remember all of it.
BRIEF AND INTENSE: Short reads to keep you literate in 2017
So, you’ve made a resolution to read more books in 2017—an admirable resolution as so many are—but how the devil to do it? You can’t expect to have more time and there’s a new series you’re supposed to binge watch each weekend, just so you can keep hip and current. My solution: read shorter books. For instance, I’ve read three books in the last four days. I’m going to tell you about them.
The Invisibility of Whiteness
“Ultimately, to be white is a moral choice. White people are imagined. White people are white only because they want to be white.” – James Baldwin Dave McFayden grew up in a working class neighborhood off Summit Avenue. He’s 44 and works in Facilities Operation at UNC-G. Growing up, there we’re no black people in his neighborhood. He never really noticed his whiteness until a black kid his age, around eleven, moved in.
BEING AND WHITENESS
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THE NEW NORMAL
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Coen Crisp changes more than pronouns
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Haunted by the living
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MY MOMMA LOVES ME
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Kevin Varner chooses a new script
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Jim Carmichael makes something beautiful
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Thinking outside the COFFIN Life and Stimp Hawkins
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The cumulative effects of the zone: Strugatsky science fiction
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