When Ohio-born objector to the Vietnam War Jon Van Arsdell landed in Garden Bay in 1970, he was greeted by a sign proclaiming "No Longhairs." Van Arsdell’s autobiography 'No Longhairs: The Odyssey of a Vietnam Draft Dodger' shows that countercultural expatriates were hard-working contributors to the interdependent idyll of the Sunshine Coast, writes Michael Gurney.
Prolific writer spotlights history and humour of B.C. s Sunshine Coast in new book
Here On The Coast: Reflections From the Rainbelt by Howard White is part history lesson and part laughs about zany characters and happenings on the roughly 200 kilometres of coast between Howe Sound and Desolation Sound.
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Here On The Coast: Reflections From the Rainbelt by Howard White contains 50 funny tales from the area
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Posted: Apr 04, 2021 11:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 4
Ever wonder how a roughly 200-kilometre stretch of coast dominated by temperate rainforest came to be known as the Sunshine Coast? Howard White s new collection of stories about the area has the answers to this and more.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lauren Krugel)