“Kauai Stories,” a book by Kauai writer Pamela Varma Brown, has been named a finalist in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards in the Biography – Historical category. Kauai Stories is a collection of stories told in people’s own
“Kauai Stories,” a book by Kauai writer Pamela Varma Brown, has been named a finalist in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards in the Biography – Historical category.
Kauai Stories is a collection of stories told in people’s own words that illustrate life on the Garden Island.
“Told in the first person, Kauai Stories feels like each storyteller is talking directly to you over a cup of coffee while sitting on the lanai of your own Hawaiian cottage,” according to a press release.
Topics range from anecdotes of people looking after one another, to personal memories of growing up on Kauai while living in sugar plantation housing “camps,” to adventurous tales of Kauai sailors journeying across the open ocean, navigating by the stars, moon, sun and waves as their ancestors did 1,500 years ago.
Other stories in the book are about the spirit of aloha; keeping Hawaiian culture alive through hula dancing, traditional salt-making and sewing Hawaiian-style quilts; the island’s World War II veterans; a humorous chapter about Kauai’s ubiquitous wild chickens; tasting Kauai; ocean recreation; hiking and making music on the island.
The artist whose colorful painting of a rustic Kauai cottage graces the front cover of the book also tells her story of how she became a professional artist by capturing the beauty of the Garden Island.
