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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Rock and Roll Family Edition

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Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. Before the MAH exhibition, those historic surfboards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Their music was relevant to the crowd. I loved the piece. By the 1980s, ShaNaNa was mainstream.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

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This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Killer content.

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