Socolow explores rowers’ search for on-the-water transcendence
A recent piece in the Boston Globe by Michael Socolow, timed to last weekend’s Head of the Charles Regatta, looked at rowers’ search for that elusive condition known as swing. “Swing is ephemeral and almost indescribable,” wrote Socolow, an associate professor of communications and journalism at the University of Maine. “It’s the challenge that keeps oarsmen rowing. It’s the moment when the physical propulsion of a shell evolves into a metaphysical feeling of transcendence. This is the essence of crew.”