"GEORGE FREETH: KING OF THE SURFERS AND CALIFORNIA'S FORGOTTEN HERO," BY ARTHUR C. VERGE (2001)
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Arthur Verge is a history professor and a former lifeguard from Southern California. This article ran in the Summer-Fall 2001 issue of California History magazine. * * * Not far from the crowded shoreline of Waikiki Beach is the final resting place of a native Hawaiian who forever changed California and its image to the world. Beneath the Freeth family tombstone is his simple burial marker. Onl...
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