A Daredevil & Two Boards.A Daredevil & Two Boards Gregor Ziemer Gregor Athalwin Ziemer (24 May 1899 - August 1982) was an American educator, writer, and correspondent who lived in Germany from 1928 to 1939, during which time he served as the headmaster of the "American School in Berlin. Hunter Halverson Press 115 West Main Street, 2nd floor, Madison, WI 53703 www.hunterhlversonpress.com 097441431X $15.95 1-608-255-8678 On a hot July day in 1922, Ralph Samuelson Ralph Samuelson (July 3, 1904–August 1977) was the inventor of water skiing, which he first performed in the summer of 1922 in Lake City, Minnesota, just before his 19th birthday. convinced his brother Ben to pull him up out of the wasters of the Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. and into sports history. With two pine boards strapped to his feet, 18-year-old Lake Pepin For the lake in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, see . Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake, and the widest naturally occurring part of the Mississippi River. It is a widening of the river on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. fisherman and sports enthusiast Samuelson invented water skiing water skiing, sport of riding on skis along the water's surface while being towed by a motorboat. It probably originated on the French Riviera in the early 1920s, and was known in the United States by 1927. and launched both a sport and an industry. Biographer and historian Gregor Ziemer tells the true and hitherto unknown story of this small town Minnesota boy and his contribution to the rise of water skiing as one of the most popular and widespread forms of water recreation. A Daredevil & Two Boards: Ralph Samuelson, The Lake Pepin Pioneer Who Invented Water Skiing is as entertaining as it is informative, and a "must read" for anyone who has ever strapped on a pair of waterskis and held on for dear life to the tow rope of a motorboat while swiftly skimming over the surface of a lake or river! |
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