Do you know where your beanies are?

Do you know where your beanies are?

By Dennis Fujimoto – The Garden Island

KEKAHA — On a tranquil street in Kekaha, a phenomena has quietly been taking place in a yard.

Beanies, or caps, are being born.

John and Mary McGuigan made the discovery in mid-August, and since the couple discovered the first ones, the beanies have been accumulating.

“There must be someone who is losing them and buying new ones,” Mary McGuigan said as she and John surveyed the growing number of headwear pieces neatly displayed alongside the wall of their Kekaha home.

“We do not know who, or what brings them. Most of them are like new, and as of the final week in September, we have collected 41 of them,” she said.

Inventorying their collection, Mary said they have 29 blue ones, four black caps, three white, and five multi-color, including a purple one emblazoned with “Hoosier” on it.

“It’s a mystery,” John said.

Sometimes there are three, sometimes there are five. What is also puzzling is that there is no pattern on when the beanies will appear.

The one common trait in the appearance is that all of the beanies have shown up either in their back, or side yard. None has shown up on their front yard, yet. “If it is a dog that brings them, we don’t know, as there are no dogs in our yard during the day,” the McGuigans said.

“We would like to return them to their rightful owners. We have also laundered them, so they’re all clean,” the couple added.

They asked that their phone number not be published, so if the headwear belongs to anyone, they can contact Dennis Fujimoto at 245-3681, ext. 253, or e-mail dfujimoto@pulitzer.net, so the McGuigans can make contact and arrangements to return the beanies.