• Backyard music • Miscommunity-gate Backyard music While the latest mailing of the Kaua‘i Historical Society sings the praises of Hawaiian-style backyard music and how necessary it is to preserve, my previous experience living near one of these historic treasures
• Backyard music
• Miscommunity-gate
Backyard music
While the latest mailing of the Kaua‘i Historical Society sings the praises of Hawaiian-style backyard music and how necessary it is to preserve, my previous experience living near one of these historic treasures was nothing but pure hell. In short, it sucked!
And, I would pity anyone having to put up with loud, unwanted music, particularly when you want a short nap on an otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon, or would enjoy reading a book or doing some writing, or just relaxing and minding your own business alone or with your own family.
Furthermore, these types think it’s their sovereign right to annoy and disturb the peace of their neighbors on their precious aina. Moreover, they are rude, crude, illiterate or semi-illiterate and often also drunkards and/or drug abusers, and would not know real culture if it hit them in their collective faces.
What they do understand is fear and force, and unfortunately it needs to be applied – legally, of course.
So, if you folks are so nostalgic about preserving backyard music, Hawaiian or otherwise, please be sure to make the call far and wide to have these people play in a backyard next to your home and property and far away from mine.
Miscommunity-gate
Neither Mayor Baptiste (March 25 issue of The Garden Island), nor The Garden Island (In Our View, March 30) is right about gated communities.
While Superferry H-4 threatens to, intends to, make Kaua‘i a suburb of Honolulu our Mayor of Kaua‘i says “Communities should be welcoming and accessible to everyone,” our newspaper editorializes about a “drive through the nicer areas of Orange County in Southern California” lamenting not on the fact that the act of driving through any place faster than walking speed, car windows up, A/C on, necessarily means that one is not in direct contact with anything, especially not in contact with whatever human community there may be outside the driver’s vehicle !
Since when is the human community of a neighborhood enhanced by vehicular access by strangers? Or are our leaders suggesting that we pretend to be living in a world where there are no strangers.
Engendering a sense of community in my family, much less in my neighborhood, is without a doubt the last thing a diesel exhaust fuming, rumbling tourist bus or van brings to us. Whether in buses, vans, trucks or cars, whether tourists from Japan or Kaua‘i residents, the fact that there are humans inside the vehicles does nothing, absolutely nothing positive that adds to our sense of community.
I challenge our Mayor, the editors of TGI “In Our View” and visitors (TGI March 26) to further present their case as to why we all should, as they apparently do, feel that such unrestricted, open, public vehicular use of, access to, our neighborhoods (even for one hour, much less 24/7/365) makes for “strong, integrated community,” supports “a pedestrian-friendly environment”, has anything to do with making housing on Kaua‘i more affordable, adds to “the spirit of aloha,” leads to “strong community bonds.”
- Greg Goodwin-Fu
Princeville
