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Down Along The Sunset
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Cork Hill Pr
(2004)
ISBN 10: 1594084661
ISBN 13: 9781594084669
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cork Hill Press [Published date: 2004]. Hard cover, 111 pp. First printing, with full number line. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author (first name only) on title page. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Glossy pictorial paper over boards have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Previous owner's personalized gift inscription on front paste-down. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A collection of poetry by Benner Cummings (1926 - 2016), the Poet Laureate to the International Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach, CA. [From About the Author] Benner Cummings's childhood was spent growing up in Seattle, Washington in an orphanage called The Seattle Children's Home. Fortunately, it had its good points as well as bad.during the Depression period it was one of the biggest and most beautiful mansions on Queen Ann Hill. Unfortunately, it came without parents. So as with all youth left to time and themselves, Benner, and his many youthful friends taught each other to survive. As with all boys, the love of adventure and sports soon became all comforting and all important. Swimming found its place mainly because he was small, quick, and could stand the frigid temperatures of the icy Puget Sound.This love of the sport led him later to a swimming scholarship at Washington State University where he captained the varsity and excelled in the one-mile swim, in an event few else wanted to spend the long hours training for. Since the orphanage had taught him the philosophy of survival through opportunities, he moved on to become the freshman swimming coach at Washington State University, producing two winning seasons before moving to San Juan Capistrano, California, and its old Union High School. Here, he found his first look at a group of young swimmers amongst the surfers, smacking of rugged individualism. He soon learned: You don't teach them much of anything; they teach you. They were iron men, who lived for the ocean with all of its naturalism. Born to this ocean and equally toughened by it, they were the most natural athletes he had ever coached. They were full of life, with the word "failure" not in their vocabulary. Building his program around their talent and ability, Benner sweetened it with his own philosophy of, "Hard work does things too."These surfers became the foundation of the swimming teams of early San Clemente High School years. They also laid thoughts for much of his poetry about the ocean and surfers. Almost every poem was written about what these surfers, these colorful persevering athletes of the sea, had demonstrated to him over the years - plus a dash of his own adjectives thrown in from college days. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 20200423002
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