Some of us—the lucky ones—have someone in our pasts who took a liking to us and became a mentor. When that happens, it can change your life. My mentor was Frank Fasi. Born and raised in East Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Italian immigrants, Frank had first come to Honolulu in 1942 as a U.S….
There used to be a daily train from Washington to Montreal—the original one, the Montrealer, was operated by the Boston and Maine Railroad and then by Amtrak beginning in 1972. The Montrealer was a popular train, especially in winter months with skiers traveling north in search of powder. In fact, there was even a…
I’ll bet a lot of the people you know have been to Hawaii. In fact, the odds are that you’ve been here. This wonderful, unique exotic place is on almost everyone’s bucket list. That includes celebrities, of course, and during my 50-plus years here, mostly while I was working for Frank Fasi, the Mayor of…
It was early in 1970 and Frank Fasi had been mayor of Honolulu for about two years when the crisis hit: bus drivers for the privately owned Honolulu Rapid Transit company went out on strike. Public transportation on the Island of Oahu came to a virtual standstill. The shutdown had, in fact, been engineered by…