In the days before there were blogs, and youtube, and international press required a telegraph, or notes attached to...pigeons (shudder), Hawaii was preeminent! It held this international reputation. I mean, did anybody back 100 years ago get this dreamy look in their eyes when they heard the name of ...Guam? </dissing Guam>.
Two whom do we thank for writing about these isles way back then? I know of only a few names and even fewer of their examples:
-Mark Twain (I only remember some paragraph about him thinking that either Chinatown or Honolulu was overrun with cats)
-Jack London (I read "Chun Ah Chun", which was unusual for the time, because of the multi-racial composition of that family, which JL found exotic)
-Robert Louis Stevenson (how did this guy come up with Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde? Is it a coincidence that the character shares the name with a real-life person, the Rev. Dr. Hyde, who had the gall to malign Father Damien, recieved the best smackdown I've ever read from that era? If you have 1/2 hour, do spend it on "An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu"
Are these the cats who inspired people to pine for the tropics? Who else, popular in their day, wrote of the isles?
Two whom do we thank for writing about these isles way back then? I know of only a few names and even fewer of their examples:
-Mark Twain (I only remember some paragraph about him thinking that either Chinatown or Honolulu was overrun with cats)
-Jack London (I read "Chun Ah Chun", which was unusual for the time, because of the multi-racial composition of that family, which JL found exotic)
-Robert Louis Stevenson (how did this guy come up with Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde? Is it a coincidence that the character shares the name with a real-life person, the Rev. Dr. Hyde, who had the gall to malign Father Damien, recieved the best smackdown I've ever read from that era? If you have 1/2 hour, do spend it on "An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu"
Are these the cats who inspired people to pine for the tropics? Who else, popular in their day, wrote of the isles?
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