The Hawaii Islanders were Honolulu’s professional baseball entry in the Pacific Coast League from 1961 to 1987.  The franchise had moved to Honolulu from Sacramento in 1961 and the team...

My thanks to the surprising number of folks who emailed me about the problems that essentially froze this site for the past two days. I spent hours—and I literally mean...

About a week ago, Hawaii’s governor, David Ige, announced that everyone arriving here by plane—whether local or visitor—would have to be quarantined for 14 days. . That effectively shut down...

There’s an interesting story in the on-line newsletter from Travelers United about people fainting on airplanes. It’s happening more and more and a combination of factors seems to be the...

Tourists come to visit Hawaii for many reasons. The people here are genuinely warm and friendly, the weather is pretty much delightful year ‘round, and the scenery . . . ...

Some of you have expressed an interest in my new book, Fascinating Facts about Hawaii.  It’s a collection of many interesting and little-known facts about these incredible islands and many...

You may have read about Amanda Eller. She’s a local resident who went off for an afternoon hike, became disoriented, got lost, and was finally rescued … seventeen days later....

I had a nice phone conversation this afternoon with Roy Sakuma. He plays the ukulele wonderfully, as he damn well should since he was a student of Herb Ohta, known...

That’s the working title of a book I’m working on and it’s the reason I have neglected this space for the past several days. I’m entering crunch time for this...

I’ve often been asked about the connection between Elvis Presley and Hawaii.  There was nothing strange about it, as far as I know. Apparently, it was simply that Elvis loved...