Entries Tagged 'Author' ↓
September 7th, 2010 — Author, Hawaii, Hawaiian Studies, History, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
In this edition of Long Story Short, Leslie Wilcox talks story with a true Renaissance man. John Clark relates how learning to surf at a young age led him to become a waterman, lifeguard, fire fighter, historian, and writer. The author of a series of books on Hawaii’s beaches, John Clark took the innate curiosity that we all have and hunted down the source and mo’olelo, or stories, behind the names of Hawaii’s surf spots and shoreline landmarks. Find out how this descendent of a sea captain is doing his part to keep Hawaiian stories and characters alive.
Long Story Short - John Clark - Keeping Hawaiian Stories Alive [26:42m]:
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Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox is a production of PBS Hawaii.
August 23rd, 2010 — Author, Hawaii, Hawaiian Studies, History, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
Leslie Wilcox talks story with Barbara Kawakami who, just three months old in 1921, arrived in Hawaii with her family and a ship full of Japanese “Picture Brides”. These young women were about to enter into arranged marriages to plantation laborers. Barbara has devoted the last thirty years collecting the clothing and preserving the almost-lost accounts of first generation immigrants, many of them picture brides.
Long Story Short - Barbara Kawakami - Remembering Japanese 'Picture Brides' [26:44m]:
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May 3rd, 2010 — Artist, Author, Hawaii, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
Leslie Wilcox talks with Honolulu born and raised slam poet Kealoha. He has represented Hawaii seven times at the National Poetry Slam and is the founder of local events like First Thursdays – the largest registered slam poetry competition in the world with an average attendance of 600+. In 2009, Kealoha was featured on HBO’s Brave New Voices series.
Long Story Short - Kealoha - Honolulu's "Slam Poet" [26:42m]:
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December 28th, 2009 — Author
In his more than fifty year career, William S. Merwin has received nearly every major award for poetry, including two Pulitzer prizes. He has traveled widely and lived in Europe, but since the late seventies Haiku, Maui has been his home. It is also where he found an affinity for native Hawaiian culture and where he crafted a mythical, Hawaiian narrative. He talks to Leslie about how his love for words began as a child, when his mother would read to him. He also reads from some of his poetry collections.
Long Story Short - W.S. Merwin - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet [26:42m]:
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September 21st, 2009 — Author, Government, Hawaii
In the first of a two-part Long Story Short, Ben Cayetano talks with Leslie Wilcox about growing up in Kalihi and a past only recently revealed in his self-titled memoir. He talks openly about being raised by his father and how he discovered, yet never discussed, the truth of his birth. Looking back, Ben shares with Leslie how personal encounters with ethnic discrimination and other early experiences informed the important decisions of his life, and led eventually to a career driven by his desire to advocate for social justice.
Long Story Short - Ben Cayetano - Former Hawaii Governor - Part One [27:16m]:
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April 6th, 2009 — Author, Hawaii, Hawaiian Studies, History, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
Nanette Napoleon is considered Hawaii’s leading expert on graveyards. A trustee of O’ahu Cemetery in Nu’uanu, she’s the author and photographer of a book on Hawaii’s oldest public graveyard. She gives walking tours of the site and she supervised documentation of more than 300 graveyards and 30,000 tombstone inscriptions throughout the state.
Long Story Short - Nanette Napoleon - Hawaii's History Detective [26:43m]:
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November 24th, 2008 — Author, Hawaii, Hawaiian music, In-Depth Interview, cancer survivor, conversation, interview
In this episode of Long Story Short, Leslie Wilcox sits down to share stories with Keola Beamer.
The popular and gifted writer, composer and Hawaiian slack key guitar master says he ready to talk – for the first time publicly – about the passing of his mother, Aunty Nona Beamer. And he wants to talk – for the first time publicly – about surviving prostate cancer. It’s an emotional and revealing Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox.
Long Story Short - Keola Beamer - Writer, Composer & Slack-Key Guitar Master [27:48m]:
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October 20th, 2008 — Author, Education, Government, Hawaii, In-Depth Interview, business, conversation
Samuel P. King was the son of a Hawaii Governor and he’s lived a life of public service. His father, Samuel Wilder King, served in the U.S. Navy during two World Wars and as delegate to the U.S. Congress and Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
Judge King is now in his 90s and he’s still a working judge, still hearing cases. In 1997, he found time to coauthor a lightning-rod newspaper essay with three other highly regarded Hawaiians and a law professor. The essay, Broken Trust, charged gross incompetence and massive trust abuse by the trustees of what was once called the nation’s wealthiest charity, Bishop Estate, responsible for the Kamehameha Schools.
Long Story Short - Federal Judge Sam King [28:25m]:
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September 15th, 2008 — Author, Hawaii, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
Nora Okja Keller, born to an American father and a Korean mother, has written two critically-acclaimed and important novels, Comfort Woman and Fox Girl, based on the almost unspeakable experiences endured by Korean women during World War II, and the lives of Korean-Americans that came after them.
Long Story Short - Nora Okja Keller - Finding a Voice through Writing [26:54m]:
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June 16th, 2008 — Author, Hawaii, In-Depth Interview, conversation, interview
Gavan Daws, the best-selling author of Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, Land and Power in Hawaii, Holy Man: Father Damien of Moloka‘i and many other books, plays, songs and documentary films, has just collaborated on an 1,120-page anthology, Honolulu Stories: Two Centuries of Writing.
Join Leslie Wilcox as she sits down to share stories that reveal this Australian transplant’s deep interest in, knowledge of and love for Hawai‘i, Asia and the Pacific.
Long Story Short 125 - Gavan Daws [27:51m]:
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