On this episode of Our American Stories when Roger McGrath first paddled out at Malibu as a boy in the s surfing was still a small fraternity with only a few decades of history in California The boards were heavy the crowds were thin and many of the men riding those waves were quietly reinventing the sport Roger grew up among them and decades later he shares the story of the surfers who built the culture he fell in love with It begins with George Freeth who brought stand-up surfing to California and Tom Blake who made the massive wooden [... more]