Four local authors will sign their works at the Kaua‘i Museum today, Friday, Dec. 3, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The separate books will be available for people to purchase and have signed by the authors. The event takes
Four local authors will sign their works at the Kaua‘i Museum today, Friday, Dec. 3, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The separate books will be available for people to purchase and have signed by the authors.
The event takes place in the Main Gallery of the Albert Spencer Wilcox Memorial Building.
Trust and betrayal. Love and sacrifice. Duty and conflict. These are universal themes depicted in this American success story by Jean Ariyoshi, the first Asian American gubernatorial first lady in the United States, in her new autobiography “Washington Place, A First Lady’s Story.”
“I am drawn to trees and wood — its beauty and spirit. Woodturning is a challenge to uncover the treasure cloaked beneath its bark,” said Robert M. Hamada of Wailua Houselots.
“It’s a sort of personal discovery that I experience because I am the first to see it. Even sections of the same log that lie just inches apart can be uniquely different from each other,” said Hamada, the subject of a book by Pattie H. Miyashiro, “Robert M. Hamada Master Woodturner.”
Hamada will be available for the signing of this recent publication that speaks on his exceptional work.
“Surfers are part of a great tradition that reaches back not decades, but millennia. Fred Hemmings once said, ‘The soul of surfing is Hawai‘i.'” Words like these are included in “200 Years of Surfing Literature: An Annotated Bibliography,” orchestrated by Tim DeLaVega of Hapapepe, who has arranged the literature of surfing into four time periods: Discovery (1779-1899), Rebirth (1900-1959), The Boom (1960-1969), and The Modern Era (1970-2004). DeLaVega will be available to autograph copies of that book.
Imagine Hawai‘i before jet travel, television, freeways, or shopping malls. Imagine a time when tourists were know as “visitors” and treated like guests in your own home. Picture a community with a direct link to a legendary past, like the grandfather who, as a boy, took food to Ko‘olau the leper, hiding in the rugged pali from government troops. “Aloha Kauai A Childhood,” written by Waimea Williams and one of the top-selling books at Borders Books Music & Cafe, is a window into the outer-island Hawai‘i of the 1950s. Williams’ work reveals the generosity and grace of this special place and its people.
For more information, call the Kaua‘i Museum, 245-6931.
