Snowboarding comes from the same place surfing does: Hawaii. By which I mean it was invented by someone from Hawaii. Or at least, by a person who had relocated to Hawaii and later become a cultural figure there. The island never gets credit. People have done research on the sport’s early history, but somehow this all-important first chapter has been lost. The people in Hawaii went through hell a couple of weeks ago, as many readers know. For about 40 minutes they lived with the belief that a ballistic missile was coming to wipe them out. They started calling one another to say goodbye. Hawaii: Accept this small restoration of roots as a gesture of solidarity, an arm around your shoulder on the curb outside the gas station as we say, “What happened in there was not cool.”
SOURCE: New York Times
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