One hundred years ago, Duke Kahanamoku introduced the world to surfing. Emily Dugan makes a pilgrimage to his home to see where it began.Â
On Honolulu’s Waikiki beach, a man in shorts greets visitors with open arms. He is not an over-enthusiastic beach boy, or a friendly tourist-board official, but the bronze statue of Duke Kahanamoku, the father of modern surfing. This summer it will be 100 years since the man known to Hawaiians simply as “The Duke” took home an Olympic gold medal in swimming, and decided to show the world how to surf.
On his way to the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm the Duke stopped off in … More
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