Category Archives: 365 DAYS OF KAANAPALI

HOME SWEET HOME AT LAST

Kaanapali, Oct. 2. Your blogger returned last night after 90 days away to the greatest place on earth. See below on why.
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YOUR BLOGGER, COLUMNIST AUTHOR TO APPEAR ON WGN RADIO SUNDAY AND YOU CAN LISTEN ON LINE

FOLLOWERS, MY LAHAINA NEWS READERS, FRIENDS AND CITIZENS

Norm Bezane, Lahaina News columnist whose Voices of Maui recently was recognized as a finalist for best column in Hawaii by the Society of Progressional journalists in Honolulu, will make a guest appearance at 5 PM HAWAII TIME SUNDAY ON  CHICAGO WGN radio, a 5o,o00 watt clear channel station heard throughout the midwest and on line.  The appearance culminates a three month visit to hometown Chicago. 

Bezane will be inteviewed on topics ranging from his new book “Voices of Aloha Beyond the Beach” and what it is like to live in paradise. 

Bezane met host Rick Kogan, a Chicago Tribune feature writer  at the Newberry Library Book Fair , which also featured stump speeches at historic Bughouse Square where locals could once rant and rave about politics, striking workers and other hot topics.

 

Bezane has been in Chicago the last three months, writing an occasional column for Lahaina News, spending time with family and disposing of a lifetime of things including 21 boxes of books from a recently sold small apartment. Highlights;

 

 

TATOOS: No 3 in series SKY BLUE MAUI AND CHICAGO

August 13. A lovely tattoo on Kimberly visiting Chicago from Sacrameto California reminds the blogger we have beautiful people on Maui with tattoos as well. She got a Hawaiian hug, dispensed freely by the blogger to cool men and women he meets.  VOICES OF MAUI TALK STORY, LLC PHOTOS

FIRST POST NEWS SERIES: IN THE SKY: IN THE BLUE ABOVE KA’ANAPALI AND CHICAGO,

Chicago, Aug. 9 Today we begin a long series contrasting Maui, where the blogger lives to Chicago, where the blogger is from and is now visiting. Each has a lot to learn from each other.

THIS STORE COMING SOON; NOT AS YET OPERATIONAL

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SHOWERS: PHOTO TALK TUESDAY, 40 YEARS ON KAANAPALI

Lahaina, June 22–:From Kamehameha to Kaanapali” will be the topic of a photo talk Tuesday at  7.a.m qt the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunrise meeting at Pioneer Inn by author Norm Bezane, you blogger featuring some  … photos taken over 40 years.

The Lahaina News columnist, introducing his new book, Voices of Aloha Beyond the Beach will quickly sketch four centuries of history and then focus on change in Kaanapali and the remarkable people of aloha who have made Maui, Maui.

Visitors are welcome. Entrance fee is $10, which includes an excellent breakfast among the items Eggs Benedict with mahi.  Meeting will conclude at 8 a.m. sharp. Info 667-0589

HOW WE CELEBRATE FATHERS DAY MAUI STYLE


Ka’anapali Beach–Some of us walk a tightrope. Many of us–hundreds of us go to brunch at the Most Hawaiian Hotel. Mothers Day attracts a thousand brunchers, far surpassing Father/s Day

Here the blogger departs from policy by showing food, relevent though because this is what this father consumed and the people who made me a Dad.IMG_0579

Maui’s best blog celebrates America’s second king

Maui’s best blog celebrates America’s second king.

FIRST PHOTOS: SPECTACULAR WAY TO CELEBRATE THE KING’S BIRTHDAY

Lahaina, June 12–Behind the gates of a replica Iolani Palace, musicians and dancers performed in front of the Iolani palacev*America’s only palace_ in the annual paraade celebration King Kamehameha the Great. birthday. The spectacular float created by Westin resorts was perhaps the best ever to appear in the parade. Voices of Maui Talk Story, LLc photos IMG_0418

Wahines in Shape in More Ways Than One Race at Oceanfest

K’aanapali, JUne 7–IN SUB (Stand up Paddle Race)  Wahines took a run on the beach and then launched their boards to complete a rectangular course before crossing the finish liner on the shore. VOICES OF MAUI TALK STORY, LLC photos

OCEAN TESTS WATER PEOPLE

Kaanapali, June 7–Some of the islands best water people, more than 100 of them, vied for metals at the first annual Maui Jim Oceanfest on Ka’anapali
Beach Sunday. NEXT MUSCULAR WAHINES TEST THEIR SKILLS.
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