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BY J. ARTHUR RATH - In the tradition of other immigrant groups, Filipinos glorified every achievement of their countrymen as they advanced from the fields into the mainstream of island life. The person making them the proudest was Benjamin J. Cayetano, who, after winning eight elections to public office, was twice consecutively elected governor of [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - At Christmas we are all children. Christmas is a lot like zoos. People always say they visit the zoo to take the children, but reliable surveys have found out that it’s the adults who really want to go. They take the children along as a kind of protective shield. [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - Excellent English skills were admittance requirements to classy Roosevelt Public High School when the three persons in the next paragraph were admitted. Thanks to a one of them, a punished gifted artist, generations of teenagers were surrounded with superlative art at mealtime. “The art provided an atmospheric experience, as [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - "Had a friend who was a trapeze artist," I told Coconut Willee. "He turned every flop into a success. Let's talk about the message Hawaii delivered with its Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit: "This a place where serious meetings can be held." Fidgeting, Willee replied: "Explain that to local folks [...]
BY MICHELE VAN HESSEN - Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel The Descendants, set in Hawaii, magnificently captures the struggle of marriage, children and family relationships. Director Alexander Payne (Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos) compliments the book wonderfully with his ability to set the film scenes vividly using Hawaii's dramatic beauty and uniqueness to depict a sense of loneliness [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Coconut Willee handed me these thoughts written on a Starbucks paper bag. The bag had tear marks and coffee stains; Starbucks outlet uses paper instead of the plastic kind which never go away and don't show wetness. "This is my response to the Governor's apparent blessing over making island high-rise buildings [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - He wrote about living in Hawaii “In A Banyan Tree, Dream House, Vagabond House, and Aloha House.” While doing so, Don Blanding (1894-1957), gained the sobriquet of “Hawaii’s Poet Laureate." Waikiki was then a one-piece bathing suit place—whereas contemporary suits give new meaning to the phrase “hanging out.” Blanding expressed external [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Being on “screen” was easier when Hawaii seemed new and you knew people welcoming sky-high dreams. “Blue Hawaii” (Elvis Presley 1961) was set here—it was a post World-War sequel to earlier movies starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and others who caused fantasies of Hawaii as “Paradise.” “What if” dreams still [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - I'm traveling from Waikiki to my old Upstate New York lakeside neighborhood to view flaming maples, collect memories, and rethink about Hawaii perspectives I placed at this essay's end. I'm visiting now because Nature reserves her most magnificent spectacle when the leaves are well past what, in conventional thinking, would be considered their [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH - "I've been practicing," Willee says to me, and I'll have a joyous message for thousands of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation who'll soon be visiting Waikiki." "Okay, Willee," I said. "You spout, I'll write. Do you have any particular setting in mind for your message?" "My choice was between Tiki's, where [...]
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