Tag: Boats

Fresh Off the Boat’s Battle with Stereotypes and Sitcoms

Back in early 2015, ABC released its new family sitcom, Fresh Off the Boat, which was inspired by the memoir with the same name written by Eddie Huang. The first season of the show focused on Eddie, the eldest of three boys, and his struggle to integrate into his new school as well as the daily...

Fantastic Boats and Where to Find Them

The MAA Anth received a request from a researcher from Uni Singapore, asking to study more than two dozens of model boats collected by Walter William Skeat (1866–1953), a civil servant in Selangor (part of Malaysia today), where it was part of the Crown Colony. Worth noticing is that his fathe...