RPW Exclusive: Looking Back: First Week Of April

Column Compiled By: PHIL SMITH / RPW – WESTERLY, RI – Sixty years ago in 1965 Joe Trudeau won the 25 lap Sunday afternoon Modified event at the Waterford Speedbowl.

Bill Scrivner was the Bomber feature winner.

Fifty five years ago in 1970, the Waterford Speedbowl had their scheduled opener rained out for the second week in a row. It stayed dry long enough for Fulton to get their opener in. Guy Chartrand in the Ed Cloce Hemi-Cuda took the win over Lou Lazzaro. At South Boston in Virginia, Ray Hendrick won a 400 lap modified event. Billy Hensley finished second and was followed by Jimmy Hensley, Melvin Chilton and Satch Worley.

Fifty years ago in 1975, the only event scheduled was the Fulton opener, which ended up getting snowed out for the second week in a row. The Ontario Speedway Operating Company in California headed by Parnelli Jones and Tony Hulman turned over the keys to the speedway on March 31 after having two non-profit seasons. The City of Ontario, which owns the speedway, took over the day to day operation of the track. This was the beginning of the end for the west coast racing facility.

Forty five years ago in 1980, Thompson ran the IceBreaker on Easter Sunday after being rained out the week before. John Rosati took the modified win over Bugsy Stevens, Bentley Warren and Roland LaPierre Jr. Jeff Fuller was the Late Model winner.

Forty years ago in 1985, Chargin Charlie Jarzombek won the rained out Cardinal 200 at Martinsville. Doug Hevron finished second and was followed by Jim Spencer, Brett Bodine and Jamie Tomaino. Brett Bodine won the Sportsman 200.At Riverside on Saturday night; Kenny Bouchard took the win over Ray Miller and John Rosati.

Thirty five years ago in 1990, Jerry Marquis was the Saturday night winner at Riverside Park. The Featherlite Modified Tour Series was in Richmond, Va. Ricky Fuller, driving the Chase 77 took the win which carried a prize of $17,800. Mike McLaughlin finished second and was followed by Jan Leaty and Jamie Tomaino.

Thirty years ago in 1995, three inches of snow fell on Riverside Park causing officials to cancel the event. At New Hampshire International the Featherlite Modifieds and the Busch North Series were the main attractions. Mike Stefanik scored a convincing win in the BGNN portion. Stub Fadden finished second and was followed by Brian Ross, Kelly Moore and Jerry Marquis. In the modified portion, Mike Ewanitsko started 8th and took the lead from Charlie Pasteryak on lap 92 of the 125 lap event and went on to take the win. Satch Worley in the Garbarino No.4 finished second and was followed by Tony Hirshman, Ed Kennedy and Jan Leaty. In Winston Cup action at North Wilkesboro, Dale Earnhardt took the win over Jeff Gordon.

Twenty five years ago in 2000, Lee Petty passed away at the age of 86 and Jeff Fuller was fired from his Winston Cup ride. In Grandnational action at Nashville, Randy LaJoie ended a long dry spell as he took the win. In Winston Cup action at Martinsville, Rusty Wallace dominated the event until blowing a tire in the late stages and losing two laps which allowed Mark Martin to take the win.

Twenty years ago in 2005, The Waterford Speedbowl was scheduled to host the opening event in New England on Saturday and Sunday. The main event of the weekend was to be the Waterford Nationals-150 lap SK-Modified event. The Speedbowl had posted a $20,000 purse with $5,000 going to the winner. The forecast of torrential downpours, up to four inches of rain, forced the Speedbowl management to postpone the weekend’s Budweiser Modified Nationals. The event, which included the lucrative SK-150, was re-scheduled for May 21-22. In Whelen Modified Tour Series news, Eddie Flemke didn’t stay without a ride for long as it was announced that he would be driving the Teto No.10 that was formerly driven by Tony Papale. Flemke’s former mount, the Hillbilly Racing No.79 took on a new color scheme highlighted by florescent orange with white trim. Long Island racer JR Bertuccio was expected to run at least the first three Whelen Modified Tour events in the Bear Motorsports No. 14. Bertuccio competes weekly in a family owned Modified at the Riverhead Raceway. Reports state that 2003 Whelen Modified Tour Champion Todd Szegedy had relocated to Mooresville, North Carolina and was working for Robert Yates Racing in the Shock Absorber department. Szegedy is hoping to secure a Busch Series or ARCA ride.

Several Modified Tour teams took advantage of Thursday’s practice session at the Thompson Speedway. Chuck Hossfeld and Mike Stefanik were shaking down their new rides along with Chris Kopec, Renee Dupuis, Ted Christopher, Howie Brode, Don Lia, Charlie Pasteryak, Kevin Goodale and Ricky Fuller. According to NASCAR Chief Steward Richard Brooks there were a total of 87 cars on hand.

The Whelen Southern Modified Tour Series event that was scheduled for the Ace Speedway in Elkin, NC on Saturday night was rained out. The Southern Modifieds ran a non-sanctioned 125-lap event at the Friendship Speedway, also in North Carolina, on Sunday. Ted Christopher in the Hills Enterprises Hillbilly Racing No.79 took the win. Christopher drove his Hillbilly Racing Modified to the win in the 125 lap feature for the Modifieds. Christopher snatched the win from L. W. Miller when Millers modified was caught up in a mid race accident involving several cars. Miller’s car was clipped by another spinning car after the caution flew. Rear end damage ended Miller’s day after leading the first 87 laps. Miller had pretty much had his way until that point with some pressure from Donnie Lia, another invader from the Northeast. Caution periods kept the race close and after each restart, Miller has to fend off the challenges of first Lia then Christopher. After Miller’s early exit, Christopher led a pack that included Jay Foley, Earl Baker, Burt and Jason Myers and FMS “rookie” challenger, Zach Brewer. Foley had a couple of chances at the number 9 of Christopher but after a few laps “Teddy” would manage to pull away. Foley had his hands full near the end of the race with Burt Myers until lap 113 when Myers got a run on the inside of Foley but contact between the two cars sent Myers into the inside wall and out of the race. Foley hung on to finish second with Jason Myers third, Brewer fourth and Baker fifth. A scoring recheck after the event moved Bob Park to 5 th followed by Bobby Hinkle, Baker, D. J. Krentz, Kevin Powell and Lia who was penalized for passing on the wrong side on a restart. Caution flew eleven times for 57 laps. The 125 lapper took 1 hour, nine minutes and 31 seconds to complete. L. W. Miller led laps 1 through 87 and the winner led 88 through 128. Foley was the winner of the “Bud Pole Award” for the Modifieds. Seven cars finished on the lead lap. Twenty-six Modifieds took the green flag. Kevin Harvick scored double victories at Bristol as he won the Busch Series and Nextel Cup events.

Fifteen years ago in 2010, The only short track Modified racing the second annual Frostbite Winter Nationals at the Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, NC. A sparse field of only 15 Modifieds were on hand for the 125 lap event. Matt Hirschman was the top qualifier. Burt Myers was second fastest. The draw for starting positions saw Burt Myers draw the pole and Brian King the outside pole. Drawing starting positions three through five were Jason Myers, Hirschman and James Civali. King got the best of Burt Myers and went on to take the win. Myers tried his best but in the end had to settle for the second spot. Finishing third was Ted Christopher driving the Joe Brady #00. Zach Brewer finished fourth with Josh Nichols, fifth. Sixth through tenth were Jason Myers, James Civali, Jimmy Zacharias, Scott Rigney and Gary Young. Among those eliminated in the early going were Hirschman and George Brunnhoelzl III who finished 14th and 15th respectively.

It was learned that Burt Myers, one of the stars of the History Channel reality series “Mad House” has made his intentions known that he will head north to race in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Series opener, IceBreaker 2010 at the Thompson Speedway. Myers has never run at Thompson but has competed against many of the top runners of the series at Martinsville.

The Hartford Courant has stated that Bobby Santos III had been hired by Bob Garbarino to drive the Mystic Missile on the Whelen Modified Tour Series this year. Its a great opportunity for the third generation driver who has won in just about every division he has ever raced in including the Modified Tour. Driving the Mighty No. 3 of Mike and Janice Boehler, Santos won the season ending World Series at Thompson in 2007.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Whelen Modified Tours Series would visit the road course at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut came word that dogs, the four legged variety, wouldl not be allowed on the property. Evidently track management got sick and tired of picking up the land mines that had been left behind!

In some sad news, Richard “Moon” Burgess passed-away on Wednesday, March 17 after suffering a serious stroke earlier in the month. Burgess started his career in the midgets during the 1940’s, switching to stock cars later in the decade. He competed with success at virtually every track in the region including Thompson, Waterford, Plainville, Riverside Park, Kingston, Candlelight Stadium, Cherry Park, West Haven, and others. Burgess experienced his greatest degree of success while behind the controls of the potent “Flying Eagle” #1 coupe. He retired from the sport in 1953 after a relatively brief but spectacular career in which he won over 200 races including 63 feature events.

Justin Allgaier passed Brad Keselowski on a restart with 27 laps remaining in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Bristol, then held him off over the closing laps to give Penske Racing its first 1-2 finish in the Nationwide Series. It was Dodge’s first win at Bristol since August 2007.

In Sprint Cup action at Bristol, Jimmie Johnson finally knocked Bristol off his to-do list, plowing from sixth to first in just three laps to grab his first career victory at the revered Tennessee track.

Ten years ago in 2015, with the exception of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour in action at South Boston it was quiet as NASCAR”s big three celebrated Easter Weekend.

The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour series visited the South Boston VA Speedway last Saturday. Ryan Preece, driving a car normally driven by Ryan Newman led all but one lap as he literally cleaned house at the southern Virginia speedway. Preece started on the pole and for all intents and purposes led the entire 150 lap distance that was extended to 160 laps because of cautions. JR Bertuccio was credited with leading one lap because of his position in the pit area during a caution. Bertuccio ended up second with Burt Myers, third. Rounding out the top five were Eric Goodale and Danny Bohn. Four of the original 19 finished on the lead lap.

Congratulations went out to Dick Berggren who was inducted into the Maine Motorsports Hall of Fame. Berggren did it all, from photographer, driver, promoter, editor and broadcaster and he did it with grace and class!

Five years ago in 2020, The New London-Waterford Speedbowl began its final rise from the dead as the erection of the new grandstand began. The old main grandstand at the track ran the length of the front stretch. The new grandstands would be in two separate sections of about 159 feet long running the length of the front stretch. Each of the two new sections will have a capacity of about 1,760, including handicap accessible areas.

Speedbowl General Manager Mike Serluca said renovation plans call for a scoring tower to be constructed in between the two new grandstands. Serluca said the contract for construction of the grandstand structures calls for project completion within 30 days of the start of materials inspection on site, which began on Tuesday, April 7.

The Speedbowl had not announced any schedule for the 2020 season but numerous local touring divisions have announced tentative events at the track for the 2020 season.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed an executive order on Friday, Apr 10, that would extend social distancing measures, including the closures of restaurants, bars and large shopping malls, until at least May 20. Paul Mounds, Lamont’s chief of staff, said Friday the latest extension will also apply to other establishments that have been closed, including private clubs, off-track betting facilities, gyms, sports, race tracks, fitness and recreational facilities, large shopping malls, and places of public amusement. Also, he said, measures imposing safety and distancing measures for workplace and nonessential businesses will also be extended.

Thompson was scheduled to open with the IceBreaker on May 17 which will have to be rescheduled. Stafford has their planned opening scheduled for Friday night, May 22 with their rescheduled Spring Sizzler slated for May 30-31. Stafford should be ok. The Whelen Modified Tour Series is scheduled to run at the Jennerstown Speedway in Pennsylvania on Saturday, May 23.

Stafford’s Friday night iRacing event was an exciting one as Matt Kimball was awarded the win. Dylan Izzo was leading the final lap when he was taken out by Troy Talman. Both were wrecked as Mike Christopher Jr took the checkered flag, Christopher was later disqualified for rough riding.

All Phases Renovations to Sponsor Stafford iRacing Series; Purse Posted for Drivers. After the third event, the excitement for Stafford Speedway’s new iRacing series continues to grow. All Phases Renovations has partnered with Stafford Speedway to serve as the presenting sponsor of the iRacing events scheduled for April 10th and April 17th. In addition, All Phases has posted a $250 purse for each event including $150 for 1st, $75 for 2nd, and $25 for 3rd.

Nine-time NASCAR champion Mike Stefanik was back on the NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee ballot.

The Coventry, Rhode Island, resident, who won seven championships on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, was on a list of 15 potential inductees into the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2021. The veteran Modified winner and champion lost his life in a plane crash in September, 2019.

Stefanik is part of the Modern Era ballot, one of two major ballots that voters will pick from to honor the Class of 2021 as part of new voting requirements by NASCAR. Two drivers from the Modern Era ballot will be selected while one from the new pioneer ballot will join them, totaling three. A Landmark Award winner will also be honored.

Stefanik is joined on the Modern Era ballot by Neil Bonnett, Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Harry Gant, Harry Hyde, Larry Phillips, Ricky Rudd and Kirk Shelmerdine. Two will be selected from the group.

Mike Stefanik’s record is hard to match. In 29 years of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour racing, he won 74 times and won 48 poles. Both of those marks are the most in the modern era of the Whelen Modified Tour. He won his first championship in 1989, another in 1991, followed by two straight in 1997 and 1998. He won two more in 2001 and 2002, then his final in 2006. As part of the ’97 and ’98 seasons, he also won two NASCAR Busch North Series crowns (previously K&N Pro Series East, now ARCA Menards Series East). He is also a top notch race car fabricator.

In addition to Stefanik the following have also been nominated: Following are the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2021 nominees and Landmark Award nominees:

Modern Era Ballot:

Neil Bonnett, won 18 times in the NASCAR Cup Series including consecutive Coca-Cola 600 victories, Jeff Burton, won 21 times in the NASCAR Cup Series including the Southern 500 and two Coca-Cola 600s, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 15-time NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver and two-time Xfinity Series champion, Carl Edwards, winner of 28 NASCAR Cup Series races and 2007 Xfinity Series champion, Harry Gant, winner of 18 NASCAR Cup Series races, including two Southern 500 victories, Harry Hyde, 1970 NASCAR Cup Series championship crew chief, Larry Phillips, first five-time NASCAR weekly series national champion, Ricky Rudd, won 23 times in NASCAR Cup Series, including the 1997 Brickyard 400, Kirk Shelmerdine, four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion crew chief and Stefanik.

Pioneer Ballot:

• Jake Elder, three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion crew chief, Red Farmer, three-time NASCAR Late Model Sportsman champion; 1956 Modified champion
• Banjo Matthews, built cars that won more than 250 NASCAR Cup Series races and three championships
• Hershel McGriff, 1986 NASCAR West Series champion
• Ralph Moody, two-time NASCAR Cup Series owner champion as mechanical genius of Holman-Moody

Landmark Award:

• Janet Guthrie, the first female to compete in a NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway race
• Alvin Hawkins, NASCAR’s first flagman; established NASCAR racing at Bowman Gray Stadium with Bill France Sr.

Last year, 2024, Racing in New England for 2024 got the green with the running of the annual Ice Breaker at the Thompson Speedway in Northeastern Connecticut despite 40 degree temps and rain. A partly cloudy day was had at Thompson Speedway’s Saturday opener to the 50th Icebreaker weekend with plenty of rain to darken the spirits on an exciting opening day schedule of events. The crew at Thompson Speedway kept the track dry enough to get in full feature events for both the Thompson Street Stocks and the PASS Super Late Models but the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series was a casualty to the rain and will be postponed to the Friday of World Series weekend on October 11.

Following qualifying for all divisions originally scheduled for Saturday’s festivities, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models took the field. After taking the victory lap in their respective heat race qualifiers, New Hampshire drivers D.J. Shaw and Wayne Helliwell, Jr. led the field to green. An early caution for a back-field squabble in turn three saw Massachusetts’ hot-shoe Eddie MacDonald chase down early leader Shaw and, after battling side-by-side, took over the lead before a lap 39 rain delay.

Two restarts led to two spirited battles between Shaw and MacDonald with ‘The Outlaw’ taking charge but facing a mirror full of Derek Griffith. With fifteen laps remaining Griffith began to show his hand, growing ever closer to MacDonald while maintaining a safe distance, poised to pounce as laps wound down. While a second and third rain delay dashed Griffith’s original chase, the Hudson, New Hampshire native powered by MacDonald on the final restart to claim the Icebreaker gold over Shaw and MacDonald.

Late in the day the skies closed in and all but swamped the Tri Track Series which had 31 cars ready to roll. Officials made the decision to postpone the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series event just after 7 pm Saturday. The event will be run up on Friday Oct. 11 as part of the Sunoco World Series weekend at Thompson.

The SK Lights drew only 20 cars with Tyler Chapman taking the 30 lap win. Thompson, which dropped the SK Modifieds, went with the 604 limited modifieds which drew only 10. Jon Puleo was the winner.

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Series was also at Thompson with 24 cars. Following time trials Justin Bonsignore found himself on the pole. Bonsignore toured the .625-mile oval in 19.039 seconds. Jake Johnson, who led the way in practice was second in qualifying at 19.044 seconds. Craig Lutz was third fastest in qualifying at 19.082 seconds. Rounding out the top five were Ron Silk and Bobby Santos. One of the faster cars, the No. 64 of Austin Beers suffered engine failure. Beers was allowed to start scratch in the event.

Despite the early spring bite in the air Silk was on his game as he recorded a solid win over Jake Johnson. Driving the legendary Ole Blu, Johnson did the mighty no.3 proud as he ran up front for the entire 150 laps. Patrick Emerling made a determined run as he came from 15th to finish third. Bonsignore slipped to fourth with Tyler Rypkema rounding out the top five.

Bonsignore and Johnson led the charge at the drop of the green. The first caution of the day flew on lap two when Bobby Santos had a tire go down in turn one. Santos spun and collected Dave Sapienza, Eric Goodale and Andrew Krause. Craig Lutz took the lead on the restart. The second caution flew on lap 18 when the engine in the mount of Tim Conneley expired. The field no sooner went back to green when Trevor Catalano lost an engine in turn one.

Lutz continued to lead Bonsignore and Ron Silk. Silk closed in on Lutz’s back bumper, pulling up alongside the #46 on lap 59 and using a Ted Christopher slide job in turn one to come back and lead lap 60. The field would slow once more on lap 89 for the spinning Matt Swanson in turn four, leading to a charge of teams heading down pit road for their respective tire changes. Patrick Emerling wonthe race off pit road followed by Silk, Johnson, Bonsignore and Austin Beers.

Silk rode Emerling up high to take the lead on lap 98. The closing laps saw Emerling and Bonsignore battle for third as Silk continued to stretch his lead more and more. Ron Silk took the dominant Icebreaker 150 win followed by a consistently fast Jake Johnson and a hard-charging Patrick Emerling, Emerling expressed his displeasure with Silk in victory lane.

Sixth thru tenth included Lutz, Beers, Kyle Bonsignore, Matt Hirschman and Mat Swanson. the Modified Tour now goes on Spring Break before heading to Monadnock Speedway on May 4’.

Cassie Rocco said it best when she summed up the weekend at Thompson. “Well, what can we say we finally got to start racing in New England, unfortunately, mother nature wasn’t so kind to us Saturday with Keith Rocco in the tri track race, nothing could be said other than it was a great job at least, trying to get the race in and I feel the decision to move the race to the World Series was a good one. Behind the scenes, has to be real hard logistically with garage areas with two touring divisions, purses of the two touring divisions, so a lot of stuff that all adds up that I’m sure it wasn’t easy decision to make to cancel to the end of the year kudos to the track for trying, at least we still have a track to race at thanks to the people at Act and Pass. For those are upset about it. Sorry to hear that but like I said, they did their very best of what they could do. They can’t stop mother nature and unfortunately they can’t make everybody happy either, I feel personally that the World Series will be an absolutely amazing one now with tons of racing and tons of modified‘s, that’s for sure.

The SMART Modified Tour continued at the the Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, NC for THE RUMBLE IN ROUGEMONT. Blake Barney was the apparent winner until he was disqualified. Smart officials determined that the intake manifold on Barney’s car was not one of the two approved for competition. Carson Loftin was awarded the win. Jimmy Blewett ended up second with Jonathan Cash, third. Burt Myers and Luke Baldwin rounded out the top five. Barney and his crew have filed an appeal with SMART.

In NASCAR Cup racing at Martinsville William Byron led an unprecedented 1-2-3 finish for owner Rick Hendrick at the 0.526-mile short track as the organization celebrated its 40th anniversary in NASCAR’s premier division. Ryan Preece scored a top ten finish with a ninth place finish.

For the 2024 racing season at Stafford Speedway, AZ Roofing of Bristol, CT will become the newest member of the Stafford Speedway Contingency Program, offering a weekly $150 bonus to each SK Light feature winner. AZ Roofing’s bonus will boost the weekly SK Light feature winner’s purse to $800 and with 22 races on the schedule, SK Light drivers have the opportunity to earn an extra $3,300 during the 2024 season. AZ Roofing will also be the presenting sponsor of the first Kids Night of the 2024 season on May 31st with Kids Big Wheel races joining Stafford’s five weekly racing divisions in feature action.

Stafford’s SK Light division saw 6 different feature winners over 15 races last season. 2023 SK Light champion George Bessette, Jr., Tyler Chapman, and Brian Sullivan were the big winners of last season with each driver notching 4 wins. With those 3 drivers accounting for 12 of the division’s 15 feature wins, the season was rounded out with single feature wins going to Tyler Barry, Meghan Fuller, and Chris Matthews.

Among those who pose a threat in the SK Lights is Alexander Pearl. Coming into the 2023 season at Stafford Speedway, Pearl and the #7 Darling Auto Parts team were riding a 5-season streak of winning at least one race per season, dating back to Pearl’s rookie season of 2018. Although Pearl notched three second place finishes last season, he ended up winless for the first time in his SK Light career. With the 2024 season set to kick off at the end of April, Pearl has his sights set on starting a new winning streak. He is a third generation with an outstanding coaching team that includes Grandfather Jerry Pearl.

The all new book, The Modified Years At Stafford, by the Grace of God and 600 hp, is gaining interest and has become a must have in race fans and competitors library. Race by Race, Year by Year, it’s all there. Read all about it! Books are now available on Amazon.com and Coastal 181 (877-907-8181 toll free) and are available thru Stafford’s web site in their store. Order yours now. Makes a great gift!

With the cooperation of the Arute family another book has been published with pictures and biographies of the 50 Greatest Drivers at Stafford.

The Stafford Motor Speedway had become the epicenter of NASCAR Modified racing in the northeast by the late 1980’s. From its dirt beginnings to its lightning-fast asphalt, Stafford had become the toughest and most gratifying track to score a victory. The Arute family which has owned and guided the destiny of the facility commissioned their thousands of loyal fans to name their favorite drivers. In alphabetical order so as not to offend anyone:

Tom Baldwin, Gene Bergin, Brett Bodine, Geoff Bodine, Ken Bouchard, Ron Bouchard, Mario “Fats” Caruso, Rene Charland, Ted Christopher, Leo Cleary, Tim Connolly, Jerry Cook, Corky Cookman, Pete Corey, Fred DeSarro, Richie Evans, Mike Ewanitsko, Ed Flemke, Sr., Jeff Fuller, Rick Fuller, Ernie Gahan, Bill Greco, Bo Gunning, Ray Hendrick, George “Moose” Hewitt, Tony Hirschman, George Janoski, Charlie Jarzombek, George Kent, Buddy Krebs, Randy LaJoie, Jan Leaty, Jerry Marquis, Mike McLaughlin, Ray Miller, Steve Park, Bob Polverari, Bob Potter, Brian Ross, John “Reggie” Ruggiero, Greg Sacks, Ollie Silva, “Wild” Bill Slater, Jimmy Spencer, Mike Stefanik, Carl “Bugsy” Stevens, George Summers, Jamie “The Jet” Tomaino, Maynard Troyer and Satch Worley.

Books are priced at $17.95 each and be purchased at the track at the Novelty Booth or at the Stafford Motor Speedway on line store. Books are also available at Amazon.com and at Coastal181 (877-907-8181).