HI Island Woodcut Wooden Postcard 1968 Opening its gates in 1959

Opening its gates in 1959

multiple state and federal agencies found faults with the race and denied permits for any future events of its liking

During the 1950s and 1960s

the Tontons Surfers were born as France’s first surf club

the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) soared into history as the first women to fly American military aircraft

HI Island Woodcut Wooden Postcard 1968 Opening its gates in 1959The first person to write about Hawaii and surfing was British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778 after seeing Hawaiian wave riders at the Big Islands Kealakekua Bay. Cooks stories of the wonders that he saw and the people that he encountered excited the entire continent of Europe. In many books, such as Polynesian Researches written by William Ellis in 1859, stories of Cooks travels were brought to life in etchings, a drawing technique in which