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At last weekend's Republican Convention, U.S. Senatorial Candidate Linda Lingle seemed to suffer a catastrophic technical failure only five minutes into her prepared keynote speech. Just a few minutes into her dissertation on the need for more robotics-based industry in Hawaii a large patch of Ms Lingle face appeared to flop down. At that point [...]
Traveling With History : Tel Aviv: Facing the Future With a Different Take on the Past © pictures and text, Allan Seiden, 2012 It was on a sunny day in 1909, with Palestine a province of the Ottoman Empire, that a group of Jewish residents of the ancient port city of Jaffa, feeling [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Lewis George Watkins was born on June 6, 1925 in Seneca, South Carolina. He graduated from Greenville High School, South Carolina in 1949. He was a member of the Greenville Police Department when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 12, 1950. After training at Parris Island, [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - I was walking from the Waikiki Public Library with a book of Lewis Carroll’s “Nonsense” poetry in my hands and saw Coconut Willee shuffling dejectedly past the Chinese Restaurant on the other side of Kapahulu Avenue. “Hey Brah, I’ll cross over and buy you some coffee,” I called [...]
BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare was born March 13, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri to Edward Joseph O'Hare and Selma O'Hare. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. When their parents divorced in 1927, Butch and his sisters stayed with their mother Selma in St. Louis while their father Edward [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Willee Sings: “The Kapolei Choo-choo” I’m ready to be a singing conductor on Honolulu’s new train,” Coconut Willee said jauntily, standing under a tree at Waikiki’s Queen Surf restaurant. “Like my hat and train whistle puller?” “Archaic, but colorful,” I acknowledged. He was full of news: “Union workers are starting right [...]
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