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When History Called, This Dude Answered
They came in Mercedes-Benzes, big Suburbans and cherried-out vans with surfboard racks. Definitely a SoCal crowd. Just ask the dude valet-parking the cars at the Chart House, an upscale restaurant overlooking Dana Point Harbor where they were congregating this evening.
The attraction wasn’t the food, the booze or the harbor view. It was a 53-year-old former Californian whose name, Drew Kampion, would hardly raise eyebrows or draw much attention from those outside surfing’s mainstream.
But there he was at the microphone. Hawaiian shirt. Balding pate. Quick wit and generous smile. Kampion had stopped by Orange County to pitch his new book, “Stoked: A History of Surfing Culture” (General Publishing Group, 216 pages, $29.95).
“This is really some turnout tonight,” said Mark Cousineau, who as chapter president for Surfrider Foundation in San Clemente, called the December meeting in recognition of Kampion, one of surfing’s premier historians, a guy who was there when it happened.
Already, nearly 10,000 copies have been sold, Kampion said. The book has been so successful that the publishing house is considering a second printing, said Lori Rick, from General Publishing.
From his vantage point as an editor, Kampion chronicled some of the s
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James Arness: Aspect who asterisked for 20 years monkey Marshal Gray Dillon advise 'Gunsmoke'
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James Arness
American actor (1923–2011)
James Arness (born James King Aurness; May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-televisionGunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.
Early life
[edit]James Arness was born in Minneapolis.[1] His parents were businessman Rolf Cirkler Aurness and journalist Ruth Duesler. His father's ancestry was Norwegian; his mother's was German.[2] The family name had been Aursnes, but when Rolf's father, Peter Aursnes, emigrated from Norway in 1887, he changed it to Aurness.[3] James Arness and his family were Methodists.[4] Arness' younger brother was actor Peter Graves. Peter used the stage name "Graves", a maternal family name.[3]
Arness attended John Burroughs Grade School, Washburn High School, and West High School in Minneapolis. During that time, Arness worked as a cour