I first arrived in Hawaii on the 1st of May in 1962. It’s changed a great deal over the years, of course, but I remember, even then, thinking how truly wonderful this place must have been 25 or 30 years earlier … when the Moana and the Royal Hawaiian were really the only two hotels…
This story has absolutely nothing to do with trains or travel, but is just too good not to pass along. It involves the recently elected governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, and Clayton Hee, a State Senator here who chairs the Senate’s Judiciary Committee. Both are very old friends of mine and of course they have…
I turned on the computer this morning and came across a news item reporting the death of actor James MacArthur. Years ago, when Hawaii 5-0 was being shot in and around Honolulu, I got to know Jimmy. His wife and mine were friends and we all hung out a bit together. I had just started…
It’s an oddity, but what must surely be a disproportionate number of sports broadcasters got their start in Hawaii doing baseball play-by-play for the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League. I’ve wondered over the years why that was, but never did settle on a plausible explanation. The Islanders began playing in Honolulu in…