Description:
In the 1970s, broke college graduate Mike Nolan signed on as a shipyard laborer and soon discovered that the most worthwhile education often happens outside of a classroom. Conveying immense respect for his fellow ship scalers, these entertaining accounts shine a light on the gritty, dangerous--yet still often humorous--world of heavy construction.
Brief description:
An earlier version of this book was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Writers' Association (PNWA) Nonfiction/Memoir Literary Award, and in 2019, Tidepools, the art/literary magazine published by Peninsula College, awarded Mike Nolan first place in adult prose. His writing is included in the third volume of the Olympic Peninsula Authors anthology, and he has also had stories published in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Spokesman Review, and AAA Washington.
Review Quotes:
"A strapping, big-hearted memoir of life on the Seattle waterfront."
--Steve Olson, award-winning author of The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and The Making of the Atomic Age and Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens