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Hey! My Goodreads picture is from high on Mauna Kea where, as you know, it's easy to see Maui. True, the picture was taken on the Saddle side, but you know what I mean. I have something on youtube that involves Hilo (two, actually) that you might enjoy. The longer one is fron a static camera at a reading series. But at least it's multimedia. The shorter one is from a reading at a bar (where else) in NYC.
The long one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cAo5v...
The short one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfCLI...
(I'm assuming that youtube links are OK.)
I've been thinking about the possibility of an anthology of short stories from Hawaii authors. I know there is guy on Oahu.
It's pretty clear that the action is all on Oahu.
Hilo girl here! I actually live near Atlanta, GA now, but I was raised in Kaumana. All my family is still back there. I'm the only one brave (or crazy?) enough to live on the east coast.
Nani1018 wrote: "Hilo girl here! I actually live near Atlanta, GA now, but I was raised in Kaumana. All my family is still back there. I'm the only one brave (or crazy?) enough to live on the east coast."Well, Nani, I lived in Buffalo NY for many years. Not exactly Hilo weather. And it's great to hear you're from Kaumana. Me, I grew up on Wailuku Drive, over in Pi'ihonua, which is where I live now -- back in the old family house. I regularly walk (and sometimes run) up Kaumana Drive. Still love the neighborhood.
My book has a Hilo chapter/story in it,
www.a-red-woman-was-crying.com
and I have a few things about Hilo online, over at a site called thenervousbreakdown.com
One of them is about Kaumana. Really.
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/dm...
Let me know if you ever get back here. I'm guessing I'm older than you (Hilo High 1960) but maybe not.
Don
Aloha Don! I'll look into your writings! Thanks for sharing. I'll be celebrating my 26th birthday in a couple months. Hopefully I can make a trip next summer for a family reunion and to bring my newborn to Hawaii for the first time. She's just over two months, and my family has only ever seen her through skype and facetime. My parents live on Kaumana Dr., right after the Moho'uli and Ainako intersection. What a ridiculously small world! I'm so glad that I decided to skim through this thread. Now I'm craving some local foods, so do me a favor and enjoy a good plate lunch for me!
Nani1018 wrote: "Aloha Don! I'll look into your writings! Thanks for sharing. I'll be celebrating my 26th birthday in a couple months. Hopefully I can make a trip next summer for a family reunion and to bring my ne..."Costco is selling fresh poke, and sometimes they have opakapaka.
At 70 I returned to where I was born and grew up, after a lifetime as an anthropologist and reader up on what we call the Mainland. I'm still an anthropologist, although I retired from teaching a few years ago. And I'm still a reader.
These days I write fiction -- been doing it for about 20 years.
There's no general-purpose bookstore in Hilo, which means there's no place (apart from the county library) to wander around and see what people are reading, and talk about it. Looks as though this might be such a place.
So here I am, thanks to a push from D. R. Haney ("Banned for Life") and Lenore Zion ("Stupid Children"), with whom I used to write over at The Nervous Breakdown.