Poppa Neutrino

Poppa Neutrino or William David Pearlman (b. 1933), a native of San Francisco is a philosopher, raftbuilder and musician [http://www.sfworldsfair.org/participants/neutrinos.php] . He has built several raftts [http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/Vilma%20B/vilma_b_2.htm] out of donated and recycled materials on which he has lived and sailed. In 1995 Poppa Neutrino sailed one of his homemade rafts from North America to Europe becoming the second person to sail a raft across the Atlantic and the first to do so on a raft made from trash [http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/son%20of%20town%20hall/Son%20of%20Town%20Hall.html] [http://archive.capecodonline.com/cctimes/edits/cctblogs/gb/archives/neuts14.htm] .

Inspired by a documentary he saw when he was twelve years old, in which Australian aborigines periodically burnt their homes and walked away naked free to start a new life, he teaches cooperation, anarchy, antiestablishment and empowerment to people trapped by the concept of job and rent [http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/Message/neutrino_ideas.htm] . Thus Poppa Neutrino builds his own homes out of discarded materials on free space (public waterways) and supports himself by public speaking and playing music in a band, the "Flying Neutrinos" [http://www.paulsorganic.com/most-fascinating-neutrinos.htm] [http://www.flyingneutrinos.com/] .

In March 2007 Random House released "The Happiest Man in the World" [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=the+happiest+man+in+the+world] [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0403/p13s02-bogn.html] , a biography about Poppa Neutrino by acclaimed author Alec Wilkinson.

In 2008 Poppa Neutrino moved to Burlington, Vermont to build another raft, this time on Lake Champlain [http://owlparty.weebly.com/] .

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