[gn_quote] Decades after the August AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and its sister cities, Pliny the Younger chronicled how his beloved neighborhood had disappeared into the earth. Frances Kakugawa is Pliny the Younger to a modern Pompeii called Kapoho. [/gn_quote] Whenever I hear the name Frances H. Kakugawa, I tend to think of three […]
Little Mouse’s Hawaiian Christmas Present (Mutual Publishing, 2011) by Mora Ebie and illustrated by Holly Braffett is one of this season’s cutest Christmas books for kids. Little Mouse is having a problem we can all relate with. He hasn’t been able to find a Christmas present for his Mom and Dad. As the holiday approaches Little […]
If you were to ask me where my favorite place to have a book event would be, the first thing that would come to my mind is Hawaii’s Plantation Village in Waipahu. The first book event I went to there was for Feng Feng Hutchin’s Plenty Saimin children’s book [read our review here]. It was […]
The fact is, many drinks associated with Hawaiʻi aren’t even originally from the Aloha State. The piña colada, chi-chi, mai tai, zombie, hurricane and rum runner, for instance, carry bloodlines from all over the world! “Rest assured,” say authors of The Cocktail Handbook, “this book represents a truly Hawaiian cocktail collection.” Jesse Greenleaf and Amie […]
Press Release from Watermark Publishing: Best-selling author Clear Englebert (Feng Shui for Hawai’i, Feng Shui Demystified) will present free feng shui lectures at five public libraries during the last week of January. In addition, Englebert will offer a unique feng shui walking tour of downtown Honolulu and a three-hour class on Feng Shui for Interiors. […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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