Aloha, and thanks for your interest in my books! You can click on the cover images at right to go to an Amazon page for each book (including older ones) or, if you’re on Maui, visit one of the retail outlets below. Notice that not all stores carry all titles. Please support these local small businesses…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Sugarcane Days and The Story of Lahaina Are on Maui at Last!
My two new books are in! Sugarcane Days: Remembering Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and The Story of Lahaina have arrived and will be at several locations and the subject of several talks and book-signing events. Sugarcane Days will be available first at the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum in Pu`unene, source of the…
New Maui Books–They’re Out There Somewhere!
Maybe it’s a good thing my new books, Sugarcane Days: Remembering Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and The Story of Lahaina, didn’t arrive during the last few days. Imagine unloading 3,000-plus pounds of books in the rain. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself after reading Sarah Ruppenthal’s great story in The Maui News…
Maui’s HC&S Was Constantly Innovating
This is an excerpt from Sugarcane Days, due on the island any day now! Innovation was an everyday thing at midcentury HC&S. Safer, easier, cheaper—these were goals for everyone, from supervisors at “work simplification” conferences to the workers who informally fine-tuned the processes they performed. Isolated in the middle of the Pacific before the days…
Royal Maui Line Produced a Sacred Queen
Keopuolani, the “sacred wife” of Kamehameha I, was considered sacred because of her high lineage. She was the product of generations of intermarriage between high-ranking ali‘i of the Pi‘ilani line. The marriage of close relatives—full-blood brothers and sisters, half siblings, first cousins—was believed to magnify the mana, or power, of the chiefly class, concentrating it…
