This story details hard-working blue collar people who without the benefit of financiers built leading edge ocean going vessels during 1970s. The father and son enterprise lead by Ed and Dugie Freeman was supported by eager and meticulous craftsmen and became known for skill at their trades.
Ed Freeman’s birthright family trials and tribulations are traced back to 1833 when his great-grandfather is abandoned as a newborn on a pastor’s doorstep in North Carolina. The family history is followed through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and Dust Bowl. On a freezing cold winter night in 1939, 22 year old Ed Freeman escaped a forced family arrangement by hopping on a railcar headed west, joining the ranks of hoboes and eventually settling in the coastal mountains of Oregon where he could be his own man in a land of opportunity surrounded by giant forests of Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar.
Thirty years later, leveraging work ethic, skill sets, and an accumulation of life experiences that typified the first-rate tradesmen they had become, Ed Freeman and his son Dugie set out on an adventure that would build the largest aluminum commercial fishing boats built in the United States at the time. Over the course of the little boatyard’s short life (12 years), the boats they built had a combined length of nearly four football fields and a total vessel weight of more than a million pounds.
This is a straight-forward American story, both interesting and instructive, that is neither simple nor complex. It puts a face to personal struggles and provides respect that effort, creativity, striving, persistence, and common sense deserve, and connects a larger sphere of influence that contributed to their success.
American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Awards
With Barely Two Nickels to Rub Together: Blue Collar Boat Builders
$65.00
Description
Ed Freeman’s birthright family trials and tribulations begin in 1833 when his great‐grandfather is abandoned as a newborn on a pastor’s doorstep in North Carolina. The family history is traced through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and Dust Bowl. In 1939, on a freezing cold winter night young Ed Freeman escaped a forced family arrangement by hopping on a railcar headed west, joining the ranks of hoboes and eventually settling in the coastal mountains of Oregon where he could be his own man in a land of opportunity surrounded by giant forests of Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar. Thirty years later, Ed Freeman and his son Dugie took off on an adventure that would build the largest aluminum commercial fishing boats constructed in the United States at the time. Leveraging skill sets, work ethic, and an accumulation of life experiences that typified the first‐rate tradesmen they had become, over the course of the little boatyard’s short life (12 years), the boats the Freeman team built had a combined length of nearly four football fields and a total vessel weight of more than a million pounds. This is a straight‐forward American story, both interesting and instructive, that is neither simple nor complex. It puts a face to personal struggles, effort, creativity, striving, persistence, and common sense while connecting their success to a larger sphere of influence.Additional information
| Weight | 5.1 lbs |
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| Publish Date: | 2021 |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Trim: | 8.75″ x 11.5″ |
| Images: | 280 Photos & Illustrations |
| Format: | Hard Cover |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7364836-0-2 |
| Price: | $65.00 |
SUBJECT:
Biography
History
Pacific Northwest
Commercial Fishing
Business/Economics
Boatbuilding
Audience:
Interest in boats and boatbuilding
Commercial Fishing
History, Pacific Northwest-Oregon-Puget Sound, Alaska
Connecting people to business insight
Motivational
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- The 18th Annual Best Book Awards Announce 2021 Award RecipientsWith Barely Two Nickels To Rub Together – Award Winner in the History: General category of the 2021 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest For Immediate Release November 2021 Contact: American Book Fest E-mail Press Contact Mainstream & Independent Titles Score Top Honors in the 18th Annual Best Book Awards HarperCollins, Penguin Random ...
- Book Signing – October 8, 2021Bo Shindler to be honored with a book signing event October 8, 2021, 3:00 -7:00 PM at Curry Historical Society Museum, 29419 Ellensburg Ave. in Gold Beach, Oregon. Michelle Berlant will provide music and Tim Scullen will read from Bo Shindler’s book “With Barely Two Nickels to Rub Together”. Refreshments will be served. Shindler’s book ...