>> with treehouses today you might say the sky is the limit. from backyards to b and bs. >> what is it about a tree houe that everybody loves? i have never come across anyone who doesn't open their eyes wide when i talk about them. >> living out on a limb. later on sunday morning. >> for half a century nothing has said more fun at the shore than music from the bench boys. >> after discord the good vibrations are back as anthony mason shows. >> the beach boys are one of the most influential bands in rock history, but their own history hasn't been so harmonious. >> you haven't always gotten along. i mean -- >> yes. that's true. >> but for the first time in 20 years the surviving members have reunited to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary. >> later on sunday morning, the return of the beach boys. >> no summer would be complete without the smell and the sound of a citizen ling barbecue, that's the story we will be serving up. >> where there is smoke, there is fire, and if you are lucky, barbecue. george washington hosted barbecues so that food, barbecue was one of the earliest sort of community foods, one of the earliest things that americans ate together. >> later on sunday morning, low and slow and delicious. >> we will also be playing a little ball, paddle a kayak, gather shells off the beach, taste some fine rose and more. first, let's go to maurice dubois in the newsroom for the sunday headlines. >> good morning, it is july 15th, 2012. president obama out on the campaign trail this weekend, is accusing mitt romney of outsourcing american jobs while he was head of bain capital. romney is at his new hampshire home this weekend but a spokeswoman called the president's claim less than truthful. >> sunday's new york time reports the food and drug administration established a sort of internal enemies list and secretly monitored some of the e-mails of its own scientists. syria is denying reports of its soldiers using heavy weapons against civilians, it says military in the town of tremseh thursday was aimed at a group of armed rebels but activists say more than 100 civilians were killed, u.n. monitors are investigating, the international red cross today said it considers the conflict in syria to be a full-blown civil war. >> hillary clinton is in egypt today pressing military leaders about their commitment to democracy, the secretary of state is urging them to hand overpower to the country's new y elected governments. >> more than two centuries ago the french set off down the road to democracy, yesterday, they marked bastille day in grand fashion, capping the festivities with a firework display over the eiffel tower. >> and here is today's forecast. hot and humid from coast to coast, with a good chance of storms as well. things won't change much in the week ahead, you will probably want to keep an umbrella handy. >> it is not a bad place to live. >> you know, it is gorgeous -- >> next, a conversation with president and michelle obama. >> and later, a summer song of the beach boys.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> the outdoors certainly beckon, but first things first. president obama and the first lady have both said they will not be taking a vacation this summer, they talked about that and a lot more at the white house on thursday with charlie rose of cbs this morning. >> it is not a bad place to live. >> you know, it is gorgeous and -- >> we have a great view t humidity went down a little bit for you, charlie. >> well you have a basketball court and a tennis court, you have a fountain. >> you can see the washington monument. >> yes i remind our kids this is rental housing. >> the american people have loaned this for a little bit. >> five years. >> how are you going to spend your summer? >> well -- >> what is summer vacation? >> most of it is going to be campaigning, this is going to be my last campaign, and, you know, the girls are now of an age where they start having their own stuff so they have got to sleep, a month, both are leaving, we will be, you know, experiencing the first stages of empty nest syndrome. >> are you prepared for that? >> well, i get a little depressed. >> he is going to be so busy. >> but we are going to be doing a lot of work. >> any time the girls are out of school that is important time for us to spend as family, we are still parents where you have to juggle your time around, when they are free, and summertime is that time. >> you didn't have all of these important things to do and you could travel to anyplace in the world, where would you want to go? what would you want to see? a. well michelle has beenscoutie went to india michelle said i would love to travel even more here. >> i would have to say there are still wonderful places here in the u.s. and we are trying to check those off, we saw mount rushmore, i took the girls, we tried to go to every national park, but the truth is, new orleans i have been there several times but never been to the french quarter because when we are there we are usually working and go in some back way through an elevator. >> yes. the marshal service -- >> yes, so there are a lot of places here in the the u.s. we still haven't really experienced. >> with the president staying close to home this summer we headed into the blue room to talk about affairs of the state and matters of politics. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to sit here with you at this important time in the presidency and for the country and especially pleased to have both of you because -- >> because they is more popular. >> he is more popular. >> i notice you played a prominent role in the campaign and also because of the significance of family. i read you though, this, that i found as neigh. >> you said i trust her completely, but at the same time she is also a complete mystery to me in some ways, i it is that attention between mystery that makes it more strong. >> is it even more so in this time and place? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> where did he write that? >> 1996. >> really? >> yes. you know, i am happily surprised at how i think this experience has strengthened rather than diminished our marriage. i rely on her even more now than i did back then, and i do think that part of the great thing about our marriage is, we have complete trust and honesty, and that keeps the relationship fresh. >> this place, did this place change you? >> you know, i don't -- i say this all the time. i think particularly at our age, you know, late 40s, early fifties i am 48 -- >> have yo have you forgotten ht turned 50? >> no, i am being clear i am not there yet. but i just -- i think you are who you are, and wrong you change in this place. i think this place magnifies the good parts and the bad parts of you. i just have been so proud to watch him maneuver through some pretty interesting waters and to retain himself. he shows us in the way he looks at me and the girls when he comes home at 6:30 that there is nothing more important than being there with us and the fact that he can do that and then later on after dinner, after we have walked the dog an got the girls started on their homework he starts unloading his day and i think, wow, is that what happened? >> just, you know, i am impressed with his steadiness. >> the question most people want to know from both of you is, why do you want to be president? and what will be the significant achievement that you want to accomplish in the next four years? >> well, first of all i think it is important to know we did an awful lot in the first four years. >> of course. >> so one of the things you learn in this office is, everything takes a little longer than you would like. >> that comes with the presidency. >> right but when i think about the next four years what is undone? the most important issue we face as a country is how do we build an economy where the middle class is strong and growing and those who are willing to work hard can fight their way into the middle class and the components that we put in place have made a difference. i think the question right now for the american people is, which vision, mine or mr. romney's is most likely to deliver for those folks? because that is where the majority of american people live. because the middle class has been and is in a terrible place and losing ground in terms of their history. >> and they have been losing ground even before this recession hit for the ten years before their incomes and wages had flat lined. >> but suppose, i mean he clearly will say let's look at your record. let's look at the fact that unemployment is at 8.2 percent and is unlikely to change. let's look at how effective the stimulus was. >> right. >> let's will be at your management of the economy. >> exactly. >> yes, it was a bad hand you were dealt, but you have not made it to what it ought to be. >> right. >> that is the central at this of their campaign. >> that's his argument and you don't hear me complaining about him making that argument because if i was in his shoes i would make the same argument. >> that is four years ago. >> look at that. almost no break. >> oh, wow. >> just a little couple of flecks. >> this was also a time of yes we can, hope and change, what happens to that? because that is not the narrative today. >> well, it is funny. i just came back from a bus tour in ohio and started to get in the campaign swing and i tell people this campaign is still about hope, if somebody asks you it is still about change, washington feels as broken as it did four years ago, and, you know, if you ask me what is the one thing that has frustrated me most over the last four years, it is not the hard work, it is not, you know, enormity of the decisions, it is not the pace, it is that i haven't been able to change the atmosphere here in washington to reflect the decency situate and common sense of ordinary people, democrats, republicans and independents who i think just want to see their leadership solve problems. and, you know, there is enough blame to go around for that. >> and do you blame yourself in part because i mean you had this confidence that you had the skills that would allow you to bridge the gap? i mean -- >> i think there is no doubt that i underestimated the degree to which in this town politics trumps problem solving. >> tomorrow looking forward and looking back, our conversation with president and michelle obama continues on cbs this morning. and ahead now on sunday morning, a view from the top. >> they look out the window and say you have a treehouse? >> there is plenty of summer fun to be had in a treehouse and for some the sky is quite literally the limit. tracy smith takes us out on a limb. >> so these cool curve i have branches the big ones will stay? >> yes. >> in a, grove outside seattle jake jacob and his team are performing a little nip and tuck on two giant western red se darz. making room for summer's sweetest structure. >> a quaint treehouse for kids and something they can overnight in, maybe a rope and pulley bucket system to bring your peanut butter and jelly sand watches up there. >> every grade schoolboy's dream is to have a treehouse. >> eric sealy knows a thing or two about that. >> back when he was nine you could say he peeked early, scoring a treehouse of his own. >> my friend came over and they would look out the window and be like you have a treehouse? >> he even made it on to the cover of a how to book with his friend ali chung. >> what are your memories of this treehouse growing up? >> >> having fights, definitely. >> did you toss pine cones from up here? >> yes. >> that could do some damage. >> a crow's nest with a trapdoor was the perfect place to attack or retreat. >> you can check the enemy out and stand on it. >> it turns out these days it is not just kids who turn to treehouses to make an escape. >> how much do you come up here? >> oh, almost every day. it is our little get away. i use it when i need quiet time, private time. >> nestled high above their home in washington's puget sound, heidi and her husband ordered up their own version of the high life. >> this is not exactly your childhood treehouse. >> no. we went a little over board. and i don't like to rough it. >> that is for sure. >> it is a chalet in the trees. we have all of the amenities you could possibly hope for, from a gas fireplace, to super comfortable beds, a bathroom, full kitchen, but heidi says nature provides the ultimate amenity. >> that is the island over there. >> i love being up off of the earth. i love being suspended in the air, being held by two living things. >> in effect, we have installed branches into the tree where we need them. >> jake jacob who built heidi's little get away says if done right, trees actually like treehouses. >> unlike buildings which tend to degrade right from the moment they are opened, trees actually grow new wood, called reaction wood where the fasteners come in and actually get stronger overtime. >> oh tell me about this guy. >> this is the temple of the blue moon, it was inspired by the part they upon in athens. >> .. he built more than 100 treehouses with jacob and he also runs a tree house bed-and-breakfast. >> windows extend all the around here so you are waking up in the middle of the trees. >> populated with his designs and booked through november. >> nelson says his professions come of age. >> today, treehouses are finally legitimate form of architecture. i see other people now creating treehouses that are so organic and imaginative and just beautiful and i go, look at that. >> designs like those created by roderick romero. >> i always say that like nature, you know, is the architect, really. i am just trying to fit in. >> rustic and clever, like this one inspired by a moroccan lamp. >> romero had done just two commissions when he found out just how popular treehouses have become. >> and the third house i really lucked out on, a springsteen and their great family in italy and this is like an octagonal porthole you come through a trapdoor but it had to be big enough for pavarotti back when he was alive. stop. >> because he was a great spring of trudy and he said pavarotti has to get up here and i am like oh man. >> he went on t on to build treehouses for julie moore and val kilmer. >> and this was all mud. >> but visit roderick romero at his favorite treehouse one he designed for a community garden in manhattan's east village. >> and looking at blue sky, clouds, and leaves and branches. >> and you learn it doesn't take much to get high. >> it is amazing. you just get yourself eight feet off the ground and you are in a different realm you really are. you see things from a different perspective. i guess that is really it. >> maybe that is because when it comes to treehouses, the perspective we all want is a child's. >> either you are returning to childhood if you are an adult or if you are a kid you are going into your imagination and creating a new world. it is beautiful. >> ahead, play ball. there is one constant during the summer that has been around almost since we were born, the simple pleasure of playing with the ball. you probably don't give ate lot of thought so we went to someone who has given the ball a lot of thought and it turns out, he had a ball doing it. >> if a harvard ed educated anthropologist, john fox, often wonders about stuff the rest of us take for granted. like that bouncing basketball. >> which is why one day when he was playing ball with his son aden, he had a moment he couldn't shake. >> my son, he stopped and he kind of looked funny and he said, hey, dad, why do we play ball anyway? and it was one of those questions where i could have said, hey, go ask your mother. but you chose to wrote a book. >> instead i thought i would write a book about it. >> the book, the ball was his 300 page answer to his son's simple question. >> and if that is not answer enough, the book on the ball is now being turned into a documentary called bounce. >> in its simplicity the ball is just profoundly good for us, i think, as humans and there is a reason why it is universal. >> the ball is the stuff dreams are made of. >> before you even know what dreams are. >> a fuzzy soccer ball of sorts. i am told we were inseparable back then. i have never forgotten it. >> from our first encounter with the ball, there seems to be a connection, he sees it every day at the basketball hall of fame. >> i was just down on our center court here and i saw a father roll a ball to his son who was sitting there, probably just started to sit up, pick up the ball and he rolled it back so immediately, it is one of those first things you can do from a sports perspective and sort of in our dna. >> how can a plaything hold such a praise place in our heart? maybe it is not the heart the ball effects, but our brain. >> there is scientist showing there is more to it, there is a real sort of intellectual benefit and emotional benefit and moral benefit to playing. >> playing has been proven to improve both our cognitive and social skills. >> take lab rats, studies show the rats not allowed to play true up mentally slow and socially awkward. and when it comes to what to play with, even our deep-sea deep thinking cousins dolphins choose a ball over anything else. >> it has been around for thousands of years. >> the pharaohs of egypt played an ancient form of ball and the mayans using the rubber tree who first gave the ball its bounce. >> and when the spanish recovered and they saw the indians playing, it was an incredible object, it was bouncing and ricochetting off walls, they thought it was possessed wit with demons and nr saw rubber brt, it was a leather ball europeans were used to, a pigskin. >> the first football games in medieval england like this one still played today on the scottish island played by villagers trying to bring the ball back to home turf. >> the game had only one rule. >> mob rule. >> the game of football was banned by english kings nine times in the 14th century because it was so destructive to property and people's lives. people were trampled windows were broken, it was just seen as a hazard. >> but no matter the game, the ball wasn't always easy to come by. take the baseball. the early ones were homemade of anything round that had just enough bounce. >> there is one-story from the midwest where they didn't have much rubber at that time where they were making the core from surgeon eyeballs. because i guess surf john were more plentiful than rubber in the lakes regions. >> however the ball is made, it made for some great for all ages. >> the greatest showman that ever showed up to the plate the one and only babe ruth. >> from babe ruth to peyton manning. >> from david beckham to michael jordan. >> with the ball here, played one of the greatest games in a brilliant career. >> one of the first heroes to master the game of basketball was the boston celtics bob koozie. >> koozie gets the ball and connects. >> long island used to refer to me as houdini of the hardwood. >> good title. >> and a lot of fans used to say, goll, you have eyes in the back of your head. >> he is now 83, and looking back, he says the ball took him places he never would have gone. >> let's, it led to all sorts of things, i have been to every place imaginable, i have been invited to the white house by six sitting presidents, because of my relationship with the ball. >> >> speaking of which, even the current sitting president still plays with a ball. he believes the way to the, on the way to the office he says. sometimes things really are just as simple as they seem. >> and just as timeless. >> ahead, whatever floats your kayak.,,,,,,,,,,,, if you are looking for a little offshore summertime recreation to enjoy, consider the kayak, michelle miller charts her course. >> the kayak was an invention of the eskimo, a tiny boat made of animal skin and bones, used for hunting in frigid northern waters. the word kayak means hunter's boat an essential tool in the icy struggle between life and death. >> my, how times have changed. today extreme kayaking certainly provides plenty of death defying thrills, but what about those of us who are looking for an experience a little less insane? >> new yorkers have pretty intense lives, and the water is like the perfect tonic. it has grown -- >> eric stiller has devoted the last 17 years of his life to bringing kayaking to the teaming masses of new york city. >> his manhattan kayak company is a bastion of paddle powered activity, including sa stand up paddleboarding, a, stiller's father imported some of the first modern kayaks from europe, and the family tradition is still going strong. >> and what we have to teach them is to use their body in the stroke, because you are putting far more mass to bear in it, exactly. >> do i look like a spazz? >> no that is actually quite good. >> somebody told me you love your job. >> i do. i do love my job. >> and we are going to get the hip forward. >> for everything i have done wit, ups and downs i would not trade it. >> you love taking folks out and showing them the ropes. >> and particularly like impart ago skill to them they can have for the rest of their life. >> despite the urban surroundings, stiller offers an experience that harkens back to kayaking's origins, minus the ice flows and killer whales. >> the hudson river does pose its own unique hazards, from unpredicting currents to the occasional 15 story tall cruise ship. >> most think i am nuts. >> real estate agent tim desmond tries to hit the river every day for at least an hour. >> no traffic, no sirens, no garbage trucks, no cars, and most of all, no people. chock up the relative lack of crowds to the fear of taking a dip in these waters. back in the 1970 it is lower hudson was recognized as one of the more polluted water ways in the country. decades of cleanup have resulted in a river that is now safe for swimming. and while the word kayak can be translated as man's boat, you will find no shortage of women taking to the water. >> just ask paddleboarder amy glen. >> women are more likely to try things and look silly looking it and fall in and keep getting up and trying it again. i think the guys want to get it right off the bat and look good and not look foolish, but it takes everybody a couple of days to get it, so everybody should come on out and do it, especially the guys, there are a lot of women here. >> all-round the globe, women are making waves. germany of meister holds the world record for the fastest kayak circumstance navigation of australia. >> fine for her but i am just looking to get my feet wet so i asked for a an abbreviated versn of his four hour paddle basics course. rotate your whole body back and forth not using your shoulders but using your core. good so your belly button is turning, your chest is turning and now eventually your eyes are going to look at me while the body rotates just like that and you are turning from the hips and not the shoulders. the bottom line, all your power comes from your core. >> you should feel very little pressure on arms and shoulders this is the foundational movement for all of our paddle sports. >> blame it on the expert instructions but for those of you hoping to see me slip over on my first attempt, i'm sorry to disappoint you. >> women in kayaking we just don't just look good, we are good. >> coming up, barbecue. >> here is to the philosophy if it feels good, do it. if it is a reward for achieving one of your goals or ensuring the performance of the engine you need for your livelihood. feel the good in every twist of your journey. >> a long day of playing outside can make anybody hungry and as mo tells us this morning it is always fun to have a barbecue no matter how you spell it. >> where there is smoke, there is fire. and if you are lucky, barbecue. >> not only is it all-american, not only is it something you just sort of associate with summertime but it actually has been tied in to the 4th of july and celebrating american independence all the way back to the very first celebrations right after the revolutionary war. >> robert moss, food writer and historian has chronicled our love of barbecue through the ages. barbecue, he says, is older than the united states itself. the cooking method originated with the caribbean indians, the american colonists copied them. >> it didn't take long for the new country's politicians to pledge allegiance to the red, white and barbecue. >> politicians figured out that if you want to get people together, way before radio, tv or mass forms of communication is barbecue you could draw hundred of thousands of people together. >> long trenches were dug into the ground and the meat was cooked using whatever wood was on hand. eventually, a politician would climb up on a log to talk and the stump speech was born. >> one of the largest political barbecues ever held was for the 1923 inauguration of governor jack walton of oklahoma, some 80,000 turned out for some unusual queue. >> two reindeer that got shipped in from up north, they had geese, just about everything, one commando nate add bear to the cause. >> barbecued bear but the school children fell in love with the bear and made a collection and bought the bear for $120 and donated it to the oklahoma city zoo to the bear escaped the bear. >> it was smoky the bear. >> today we live in the united states of barbecue. >> in north carolina, piedmont, north carolina, we have south carolina, it is a distinct style, certainly georgia barbecue, northern alabama barbecue is distinct as is memphis tennessee has its own unique style, texas you really got four different styles, you have east texas styles, sort of central texas, the bar ba co a tradition that is out of mexico and west texas tobacco cowboy style and make a case for kansas city has a very distinctive barbecue style as does kentucky which serves mutton and you can make a case that california has its own style as well. >> geez, we have almost as many barbecue styles as area codes. >> just about, we are getting there. >> and then there is the matter of sauce. >> we never saw, red sauce in texas and kansas city. >> mahogany color. >> there is only one place you will find white barbecue sauce, that is in northern alabama. the sauce was invented in 1925 at big bob gibson's barbecue. >> ken hass is the restaurant's manager. >> it is a mayonnaise based sauce with vinegar, black pepper, and a bunch of secrets i am not allowed to tell you. >> but according to moss, all those different styles and sauces date only to the turn of the 20th century. when barbecue moved from the pit to the restaurant. >> the very first mcdonald's served barbecue, before they went to burger and fries route. >> of course there is still places that cook in pits the old-fashioned way like scott's variety store and barbecue in hedging way, south carolina, where status is applied with an actual mop. >> rodney scott chops the pecan, oak and hickory wood he uses to smoke his whole hogs. >> the only thing i am going to change is my clothe for the next night. i am not changing none of this. i don't -- i don't want anyone to compromise and keep it the same way as long as i can. >> scott elevates barbecue to, well, an art. >> in art i learned color, texture, and appearance. color, texture, appearance. >> and his not so secret ingredient? >> a whole lot of love. that is our secret. >> >>,,,, hey parents, it's a big year. i'm not just teaching music. ♪ i'm teaching performance. here's what they'll need. ♪ get your backpack, your hoodies, harajuku, ♪ ♪ turquoise kinda purple orangish sorta blue. ♪ ♪ backpacks, yeow, ♪ to put their stuff in. ♪ graphic tees and denim, denim, denim, denim. ♪ ♪ backpacks. >> not all summertime activity involves activity. there is one mostly male pastime that baffled most women for thousand of years, count our contributor among them. >> true story. i have gone fishing only once, it was on the amazon and i was trying to catch piranha, i didn't catch any and i didn't get hooked on fishing. maybe it is because i am a woman. sure, there are ladies who like to fish but it is mostly men wading in rivers, leaning over bridges and boats angling for the nibble that delivers every fisherman's desire, tight lines, why do dudes love fish something i went trawling for answers. many guys tell me that fishing satisfies a primal hunting urge, it is man versus nature, armed with only a pole, beer and sunscreen. they think, i just caught my own dinner, if my wife will debone it for me. >> and if you consider fish ago sport and some do then it is a very democratic kind of activity, you don't need to be tall or strong or ajill you just need to be drunk on the love of nature. >> all men are equal before a fish as herbert hoover said. >> and it is an excuse not to do much which is what summer should be about. scientific studies have proven that women multitask better than men so fishing is a great way for men to flex their strength at mono tasking standing there with just a rod and wish is something at which men can really eckersley sell. one man explains fishing as extended periods of boredom punctuated with brief bouts of excitement which to me describes dating, you put your bait out there and see what bites, you catch and release and trust that there are other fish in the sea. other guys think of fishing as meaningful bonding time with fathers, grandfathers and sons. a friend of mine described his time with his dad a childhood adventure, the adventure was bologna sandwiches in hot humid bayou in a tight little boat and conversation rarely got deep but intimate time-shared. now there is a reason to fish that i will buy hook, line and sinker. most men probably don't analyze why they love fishing, why think too hard about a simple pleasure? but it is kind of a metaphor for a good life. try your best, hope for the best, have days when you catch something and days when you don't, but always, always be thankful for the sound of the water and the sun in the sky and the chance to cast another real. it has been said some men fish their entire lives without realizing it is not fish they are after, so gentlemen, whatever you are after this summer, have fun and tight lines. >> up next. >> come back and let it drop. >> a lesson in croquet. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. croquet, anyone? it is pretty close. even in this modern world of rough-and-tumble fast paced sports there is still a place for this time honored game, a place that we go to right now. >> tucked away in new york city's central park is a refined oasis, captured as if in an earlier time. a manicured lawn, white clothes and hats, and silence. interrupted only by -- that wonderful smack of competition. >> the well mannered have always come to so naturally. >> so normally we would have a couple of cocktails afterward, right? >> where are the cocktails? >> i'm sorry. i am a bad host. >> actually, john osborne, a national croquet champion and hall of famer is just a good sport. >> don't be too short, don't be too long, don't panic. >> too short, don't panic. >> don't do any of these things. don't think like that. >> what should i do? >> just put it right there. >> deep breathing. >> uh-oh. >> the rules of croquet were first formalized under the all england croquet club in 1868. the game mix it is skills of pool and the strategy of chess. >> simply put, hit four wooden balls through a series of metal wicks first. and then to win, the point is at the end to hit -- >> to hit that stake. >> in 1967, the new york croquet club was one of the first created in the united states. >> i think on everyone's book it is the, to play a tournament or at least play a game in new york city. >> john osborne has played here his whole life, his father jack was not just a founding member, he also developed the national standard for american croquet here. in 1977, jack founded and headed the united states croquet association. >> do you remember those days when he was working through, pulling it together? >> i sure do. >> what wa was that like? >> players and clubs were popping up out of nowhere. the growth was at the mom natural. >> it was popular both as a competitive and backyard game. >> back in the day, you know, there was the perception programs you had to be a little well-to-do to join. did that change?. that has changed a lot. when my father was getting the usc a started here he promoted it as a sophisticated high class, don't come near us, if you are trying to advertise bore don't talk to us we are the champagne sport. these days, we will take anybody from anywhere. >> good job. >> one dainess each week, the new york club even opens its doors to the public and gives lessons for free. >> people will say, oh, cho kay. >> oh sure i get that all the time, crochet. >> where do you carry the need and get them through security. >> the growth of the sport has leveled off in recent years. still it retables its popularity among retirees. >> but it does have another very strong enthusiastic following. >> people dress up, it is taken very seriously. >> it is. it is a very big event in the town of annapolis. >> annapolis is home to the naval academy, of course. but also to its 30-year croquet rivalry with neighboring college, st. john's. >> thomas myers graduated from st. john's in 2011. >> we every year come up with a secret costume. >> what did you wear in 2011. >> in 2011, we wore fake they industry outfits. >> st. john's has won 25 of the 30 games. >> why is that surprising to me you think that the naval academy would have some beefy guys that could really play this game. >> well they have more constraints on their time, i guess is the thought. >> very generous of you they don't get enough time to practice. >> they don't have must have time to practice, that's right. >> still thousand of fans turn out. >> it is the largest i don't qaeda. >> croquet attended event. >> they come to see you guys? >> no, they come to drink. >> how do you play well if you are drunk. >> we practice drunk. >> it is hard to imagine pulling off something like this sober. let alone drunk. >> you see how it works? >> it was awesome, wasn't it. >> take a look at that again. >> or look at this one. >> there you go. >> or even this newcomer. yes! double high five on that one, that was absolutely awesome. that was the best shot in croquet i have ever see. that is absolutely wonderful. >> no yelling. >> what are these. >> these shells i have collected in the last ten days. >> ten days? >> ten days. >> still to come, a shell game from bill geist. but first -- ♪ summer fun with the beach boys. >> it is a sunday morning at the shore. here again is lee cowan. >> for at least two generations now musical sound track to summer fun has been provided by the beach boys. the good vibrations survived many a pop music trend and even got over some back vibes of the band members themselves. here we are with a summer song. >> a few notes and yo you know immediately. >> it is the sound as recognizable as any in rock history. >> the sound of the beach boys. >> east coast girls are hip, i really dig those things they wear. >> in the sixties their california surf rock was music for an endless summer. >> surfing usa. >> half a century later, it is an indelible part of american culture. >> no american band has more top 40 hits. and this summer the reunited group has hit the road to perform. ♪ >> get her out of my heart. >> why did you guys decide to get together. >> it is the 50th anniversary of our group so it makes a lot of sense. it is a remarkable milestone. >> catch a wave you will be sitting on top of the world. >> but the history of this band is known for its harmonies has been anything but harmonious. >> for years, the three surviving original members, brian wilson, al jordene and mike love have each toured with their own bands. >> why would you say you went your separate ways when you did? >> you know, creative expression for some, you know, irritated with being together for too many years or too many seasons. >> you haven't always gotten along? >> yeah. that's true. >> they first reunited in february on the grammys. >> the only time and the first time in 50 years we did the grammys was this year. >> thank goodness we finally made it. >> we met the band, wilson, love, jardene plus david marks who played on the first four albums and bruce johnston who joined in 1965 at the grammy museum in los angeles. >> the beach boys still remember the grammy nomination they got for good vibrations in 1966. >> and what happened? >> lost. . widely considered one of the greatest rock records ever made, god vibrations was beaten out that year by the mommasnd the papas. >> the grammy was monday. >> oh, my god, really? >> i didn't know that. >> to be honest, i wasn't pleased. >> i didn't know that. >> oh, come on. >> all these years. >> the band formed in the boy's hometown, hawthorne an la suburb when brian wilson brought together his brothers, karl and dennis, cousin mike love, and their friend al jardine. >> we would gather around the piano before we played instruments and brown would be picking up the notes from the ether like from the freshman catalog and have each one of his voices on the right hand and say, al this is you, had it all figured out. >> they would layer those four freshmen harmonies over chuck berry guitar licks. it was dennis wilson, the only surfer in the group, who suggested a theme. >> mike and i started writing surf songs, you know, but i never surfed and he never surfed either. >> did you feel the need to surf for any reason? >> no, i never tried it. >> the beach boys first album surfing safari was released in 1962 by the following summer, they were the hottest band in america. and their manager, the wilson's father, murray, drove them hard. >> did you, did he start to be a problem in a way. >> it was a huge problem, emotionally he was abusive, emotionally and physically to his kids, and he was unbearable at times. >> brian and i actually fired him. ♪ heart of the beach boys.fragile >> did you push yourself pretty hard in the studio? >> yeah, i drove myself -- i wanted a perfectionist, you know, i wanted to try to make really good records. >> wilson once said, i was so afraid of my dad that something got inside of me. >> you said in my life being scared is probably the most driving force that i had. >> being scared? >> yeah. >> does that sound like you? >> yeah. yeah. >> what did you mean? >> scared of failing. >> i don't know. i am just -- >> i don't know. i would rather not talk about that subject. >> okay. >> in 1964, wilson suffered a nervous break down, quit touring and retreated to the studio, while the rest of the group stayed on the road. >> was that the beginning, though of the division within the band, really? >> no the division in my opinion was drugs. there was myself and bruce and alan who didn't, didn't partake, and then the wilsons and other people around them were into anything and everything. >> how was that? >> it was long enough. >> long enough to do some damage. >> but a friendly rivalry with the beatles was spurring brian and the band to new heights. in 1965, rubber sole was released. >> right away. >> so inspired when i heard that. >> what would i do without you. >> paul mccartney would call god only knows the greatest song ever written. >> it was on the influential album -- >> rubber soul inspired, that sound inspired sergeant pepper. >> but when wilson tried to answer sergeant pepper's lonely heart club's band with his own masterpiece, smile, the band rebelled. >> the guys didn't like it. >> why not? >> it sounded too experimental and it wasn't -- i don't know. some writers said that i didn't want to put out the smile album. >> i didn't have anything to do with that. the music was brilliant. >> i had an issue with some of the lyrics, i thought they were too obtuse. ♪ >> wilson would abandon smile for nearly 40 years, descend ing into a long period of drug use and mental illness. >> without him, the beach boys became mostly a nostalgia act. >> dennis wilson drowned 1983, karl wilson died of cancer in 1998. and divided by feuds and lawsuits, the surviving members looked like they would never reunite. >> but this past spring, when they returned to the studios together to make a new record for the first time in at least 20 years, the bitterness fell away. >> he said to me, let's do it again. how does a seven-year-old guy sound that good. >> , 70-year-old guy sound so good. >> i meant that as a compliment. >> no, i understand it was a compliment. i mean, that is the point. >> four of the five members will be in their seventies before the year is out. >> we should have our heads examined trying to do some of these songs after 50 years. >> but the beach boys are trying to catch one more wave. >> and you guys can do that at this point and get back together and forget all of that stuff? >> yeah, i mean, the point is, i mean, you can let the past screw with your head for a lifetime or you can say, all we have is right now. >> people are thinking the color and the quality, but the more importantly is the go kay. >> ahead, a rose by any other name. >> in an ideal world the biggest challenge of summer would be to choose the right wine to go with your meal. or is it the other way around? the question for david, our man in paris. >> to learn about rose, i went to an expert, this is enrico bernardo. this is the -- you have a blend, a little bit of, grapes from the south of france. >> and he is considered one of the most connoisseurs in the world and guests are asked to choose a wine first, then are offered a dish to complement it. >> of the thousand of wines in the cellar he has a selection of ten roses. >> some wine mixers like a pure and light color, and some others prefer a more richer, people thinking the color is the quality, but the more importantly is the go kay. >> go kay. >> bouquet. >> spicy like black pepper. >> it was in the middle ages that the monks began producing rose, it is meant to be served chilled, which made it the perfect wine for the scorching summers of southern france. but it wasn't widely known outside of the region until the railroad was built, and the line could reach paris and ultimately a world market. >> well it is now made in several countries, including the u.s., australia and if you went to college in the 1960s or seventies, you probably remember ma do you see, that's the rose from portugal .. >> because it is like more a party wine, and more informal. >> and it is cheap. >> because it is not aged. >> so it is not a very complex wine and to appreciate it, you. >> you don't need to be an expert. >> so i wanted to know if rose goes best with the summer heat, what goes best with rose? >> you can have for sure whitefish or vegetables or some pasta or some salad. >> so chef prepared a filet of turbo, a flat white push found mostly in the mediterranean and north atlantic. >> the key is, to keep it light. >> more olive oil, vegetables, spices. >> here in a puree of carrot, fennell and cucumber. >> people cook but with flowers. >> literally flowers. >> give softness and sweetness. >> in the same time, cucumber gives a green touch. >> now listen i am not going to sit here and go mmmm. >> magnificent but it really was fantastic with the rose. >> but next we find seashells by the seashore. there are a lot of shells to be gathered here along the beach of the long island gold coast but for a real sure thing you have to go a little further to a south to a smaller island. here is bill geist. >> you have got to get up pretty early in the morning to beat santa bela beach combers to the best shells. >> there are more shells early in the morning, and there are more picker. >> it can be competitive because you are trying to one up your shell buddy if you are on the beach. >> look at the color variation. >> isn't that pretty? >> isn't it beautiful? >> competitive shellers come from near and far to santa bell's shell abration. >> to vie for blue ribbons for their collections. >> this florida island a sports an extraordinary 400 or so species of colorful artistic specimens. >> drawing the most avid and colorful collect i was the. >> collecting shells on santa bell is no walk on the beal. >> i broke my husband's leg shelling. >> broken leg? >> who knew shelling had become a full-time contact blood sport. >> it is a competitive business. >> good morning, everybody. i am dottie. >> dottie knows it. >> some of the other pretty shells we find on the beach, and then oh everybody loves an alphabet cone. >> see what you can dig up. >> dottie conducts shell tours for rookies in the shell game. >> oh, yes. that is a beautiful little shell. >> that is a little cocina. >> every day the beach is different, ever every day the people out there are different. it is a wonderful place and a wonderful thing to do. >> wow. how many shells do you have down here? >> too many. >> you stopped counting? >> that's right. it is sort of an addiction, and there is no 12 step program yet that you can stop it. >> leroy who moved to santa bell for the shelling has nearly as many shells at home as the local shell museum. >> what are all of these? >> these shells i collected in the last ten days. >> ten days? >> ten days. >> yes. and each shell is beautiful in its architecture and design, color, and pretty soon you find yourself liking this shell or that shell. my problem is, i like all of them. >> you said it is a thrill when you see one you haven't gotten yet? >> oh, yes. tell me about the feeling. >> it is exhilarating. >> is this your boat here? >> yes, sir. this is to the vessel to be taken. >> some extreme shellers hire a shell guide. >> like captain joey person stead. >> this is one of the last barrier island you can get to only accessible by boat. >> to take them to remote unscoured beaches. >> but even there more shellers! >> >> there is one by your left foot. >> this guy? >> i was learning that shelling requires a keen practiced style. >> i would have walked right past it. >> see there is another there by your foot. >> i also learned that you not only have to get up early to get the best shells -- >> here we are going to start looking very carefully -- >> sometimes you have to stay up all night. >> here is a hermit crab in a nice banded tulip. >> when low tide is 3:00 a.m. smoky are out there. >> i have never been up this late sober. >> this is our fighting conk. >> oh, wow. coming after me. oh, my god, my god. >> look out, look out, look out. >> fortunately live ones are thrown back. >> there is a starfish. >> hard to believe that is a living creature. >> extreme collectors like smoky calculate through far phases, wind velocity, storm activity and tides. >> i have what i call a high-low tide and one high, high tide and one low, low tide and sometimes we just have the high, high tide and the low, low tide. >> matt ayson stays clear of such crazed shellers and has collected hundreds of oyster shells from around the world after he has eaten is oysters inside. >> you do the shelling at oyster bars. >> that's right and a cold beverage to hell me celebrate the oysters with and make new friend. >> finally there is a popular shell collecting technique for people who like shells but also enjoy sleeping at night and avoiding broken legs. >> $2. >> $2?. just buy them on the way out of town. >> this isn't a redwood forest guthrie sang about in this land is our land, but we are on a nw york island, he celebrated 100 anniversary of his birth yesterday, nearly half a century after his death they still cherish his lyrics and the message. >> i ain't got no home, i am just a roaming around, just a wandering worker i go from town to town. >> woodrow wilson guthrie born in small town oklahoma on july 14th, 1912. >> his name and homage to the reformer who would be elected president later than year. >> a lot of folks think he is the stage leaving home every day, beating hot old dusty way to the california line. his personal experience of the dust storm of the 1930s inspired this largely self-taught musician to write the dust bowl ballad. >> i am going down this road, dusty road. >> which captured the personal suffering of the fellow okay la hoe mans. >> okay ns. >> he made them up himself. >> i have no home in this world anymore. >> he wrote countless other songs, almost all with a popular bent. >> oh, you can't scare me. >> including union man. >> i will be union until the day i die. >> and of course this land is your land. >> this land is your land, and this land is my land. >> woody guthrie died of huntington's disease in 1967. he left behind a treasure trove of his songs that we will always think of as our songs. >> ♪ this land was made for you and me. >> now we head to washington and bob schieffer for a look at what is ahead in face the nation. >> today on face the nation, from negative to down right nasty, how low can the presidential campaign go? we will talk to all of the key players this morning. >> and next week here on sunday morning. >> driven. in sunday moment of nature. we leave you on this sunday at the shore past the shore, with the sunrise over cape cod. we hope you have enjoyed our sunday at the shore and that you will join charles osgood here next sunday morning for now i am lee cowan, thanks for being with us and have a great 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