Keeping tabs on Kauai from the Mainland
I am glad that I have been able to access The Garden Island’s website and to read this morning what I believe is the “latest” news about Hanalei and its environs. Kauai is my home island. I’d never left the island until I enrolled at UH in Manoa. Since leaving the islands in 1951 to continue my schooling, I have lived on the mainland.
I have family — nieces and nephews who live, generally speaking, on the North Shore, and have often returned there until air travel has become such a hassle. This message is mainly to express my appreciation for the news coverage that I had been seeking.
I have spoken with family on Oahu and the Big Island to be assured that our Hanalei family is OK excepting, of course, the extensive property damage and loss. Thank you. Now, that I know how to keep abreast of happenings on Kauai, I am pleased.
Kathleen Davis, Grand Junction, CO.
‘Dog Sees God’ delivered strong message
As a frequent visitor to Kauai, I am often impressed by the richness of the cultural life on this small island. In particular I would like to commend the Kauai Community Players of Puhi for their excellent production of “Dog sees God,” that ran through April 15.
What happens when the Peanuts gang get to be teenagers? “Dog Sees God” deals with that very question.
Just before the play begins, Snoopy dies. Of rabies. From a fox bite. Right before they haul him off, he tears Woodstock to bits.
Charlie Brown, who by now is known simply as CB, is understandably distraught. His friends are not much help.
His sister Sally aspires to be a dancer, and is working on a one-dancer ballet about a caterpillar that wants to turn into a platypus instead of a butterfly.
Lucy has turned into a pyromaniac, and is locked up in juvenile hall for setting fire to the little redheaded girl’s hair.
Her brother Linus is a stoner, who recently smoked his security blanket.
Schroeder is an obvious and very effeminate but by no means “out” gay.
Pigpen has turned into a germophobe, and also a fanatic and vicious homophobe, who is constantly bullying Schroeder.
Marcy and Peppermint Patty are two foul-mouthed sluts, who drink vodka and Kahlua out of milk cartons in the cafeteria.
In short, all of the angst, all of the degeneracy, all of the rebelliousness of real teenagers. A lot of very serious contemporary issues were explored and dramatized. Yet there was significance here as well. I strongly recommend it.
Rick Luttmann, Rohnert Park CA
“…have often returned there until air travel has become such a hassle.”
Really? Sorry we couldn’t send you a cloud to fly in on, but we’re working on that. Curing fragile is more difficult.
manawai – Why so nasty? Lady is expressing thanks that her family is OK and she now has a way – the Garden Island online – to keep tabs on her home island. Why do you want to jump down her throat? And, really, if you don’t think flying is a hassle these days, you haven’t flown for a while.
yeah manawai, “why so nasty!”
Prentiss, I can agree that flying is a mess. Such as, kioks machines (I rather the old way where we interact with a person), baggage limitations and carryon bag sizes, check points, no this and that’s, etc.
If Ms. Davis went to UH at 18 (at the earliest) attended for a year or two and transferred to a mainland college and “[left] the islands in 1951…” she would be at least around 87 years old now. Other scenarios would make her older than 88. Going to the store is a hassle for most at 87. That really did cross the red line of nastiness!