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WHAT QUALIFIES AN AUTHOR WITH NO HAWAIIAN BLOOD, A VISITOR FOR 30 YEARS AND RESIDENT FOR 10 TO WRITE VOICES OF MAUI?
Three things: an inquiring mind,
a passion to appreciate/understand
a unique culture and a willingness
to listen and learn.
A reporter asks questions but thestory is told in the voices of thoseinterviewed. Subjects are often quoted at length through the magicof the new digital tape recorderand conversation often transcribedto capture what was said, fully and accurately.
My columns in Lahaina News are not about me. Most of the the ideas here are not mine. They are the ideas, concepts and stories of people
who are the real experts on what thisgreatest place on earth is all about.
The privilege of getting to know justa few Hawaiians and the remarkable transplants who have also come tolove this place has been fairly well
and to hear their stories has beenthe journalistic experience
of a lifetime.
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FEATURING:
- ENTERTAINERS, ENTREPRENEURS AND COLORFUL CHARACATERS
- HAWAIIANS AND THEIR CULTURE
- MOVERS AND SHAKERS
- QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES
- ISLANDERS AND USURPERS (A BRIEF HISTORY OF BETRAYAL)
- NEWCOMERS AND NATIVES
- PICTURE ESSAY
- NOSTALGIC LOOK BACK AT 27 YEARS VISITING THE GREATEST PLACE ON EARTH.
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THE AUTHOR
Norm Bezane, a former reporter for Business Week magazine in Chicago fell in love with Maui in 1969. After after 27 trips over 30 years and long career in public relations, he and his wife became permanent residents in 2001.
Putting his inquisitive mind to work, he returned to journalism to chronicle the lives and thoughts of Hawaiians from the fresh perspective of an ousider stiving to understand the culture and the mysterious ways of an island like no other. His previous work as a journalist includes hundreds of magazine articles and the volume “This Inventive Century--:the Incredible Journey of Underwriters Laboratories.
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Listen to the voices--more than 60 stories of descendents of Polynesian warriors and kings and queens and sugar plantation workers as well as recent 21st century... transplants who live, work and play here... ...people whose culture is built on love of the land…people who couldn’t resist moving here because their were blown away by island beauty.
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