Fishing for Freedom: Life Lessons Learned by a Young Coastal Fisherman in the Summer of '64

At age 16, young Larry Sparks is spending his fourth consecutive summer as the crewman on his father's 48-foot coastal gillnet fishing boat. In one sense, he is learning a trade. But in the summer of '64, he is reaching a peak in his physical powers and has a deep-seated desire to learn more about who he will grow up to be, so he invests his thinking time by investigating the fundamental rules and principles of adult living and of the very business his father is in.

He tolerates the boredom ...