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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 192: The reader could be ...
Description: 8THE READER COULD BE SURE, at the beginning of any Larry Peters book, that Larry would soon be up to something interesting, for Larry shared his father’s ingenuity for creating amusing diversions, devising interesting endeavors. Often, these were obviously derivative: after his father suggested building a raft to chart the Gulf Stream, Larry suggested casting adrift bottles containing questionnaires about the weather conditions and curious local customs of the areas in which they would eventually wash ashore; inspired by his father’s car-rocking idea, Larry developed the “dry land sailboat,” a dinghy on a platform decorated with a c...