The Pond Ice Arena

Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds by Jack Falla,

In this collection of lyrical essays, writer Jack Falla's backyard hockey rink unexpectedly becomes a vital bridge to family the pond ice arena and friends, a lens through which he looks at his life in a game he loves, a road leading back to the frozen ponds of a New England childhood the pond ice arena and a mirror in which he stares down middle age. Or tries to. Essays in "Home Ice" range from a thoughtful, sometimes humorous account of Falla's original attempts to build a rink - 'The first law of Hydrodynamics as applied to rink owners: water seeking its own level fits in in your neighbor's yard'- to a meeting with the world's most famous backyard rink builder, Walter Gretzky, Wayne's father. In other essays Falla skates with the ultimate pond skaters -hockey legends Wayne Gretzky the pond ice arena and Paul Coffey, travels to Duluth, Minnesota the pond ice arena and Thunder Bay, Ontario to visit backyard rink builders, reflects on the death of a parent, the meaning of an early-morning skate with a grandchild, the connection between his 60-by-35 foot backyard rink the pond ice arena and the magical Boston Garden, the pond ice arena and the life lessons learned shoveling, resurfacing the pond ice arena and skating with his wife, son, the pond ice arena and daughter. A bonus chapter explains how to build your own backyard rink. "Home Ice" goes beyond being a sports book. It is a book for readers more interested in family, friends, the pond ice arena and relationships than in last night's hockey scores.
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