The Boys in the Boat, the best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, starts with a pan of Seattle that is undoubtedly cinematic. Under a gray sky during the Great Depression, ferries crawl across the Sound, newsboys peddle two-cent Post-Intelligencers, and children wake in the makeshift cardboard beds of a Hooverville.
But Brown’s lens eventually settles on two stocky University of Washington freshmen booking it across a quad for a boathouse along the Montlake Cut. There, in and around a former seaplane hangar, a group of rowers will train and develop into a gold medal–winning crew at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
The still-standing ASUW Shell
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