Growing Up Barefoot in Hawaii - Softcover

Hodge, Peggy Hickok

9781566471381: Growing Up Barefoot in Hawaii

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566471389 ISBN 13: 9781566471381

Publisher: Mutual Pub Co, 1997

Island author and journalist Peggy Hickok Hodge takes off her shoes and traipses like a carefree, giddy child through this delightful collection of reminiscences about the old days in Hawai'i. From her earliest memories of the first paved roads in Kaimuki to her youthful observations of undeveloped Waikiki and the glorious community festivals surrounding each "Boat Day" at Honolulu harbor, this is an enchanting look back at "small-kid time" that is sure to remind her readers of the details of their own childhood glories. Here is how a young girl saw an island world filled with salted green mango, shave ice, crackseed, firecrackers and caps, wild tomatoes on the roadside, mountain apples, alligator pears, tide pools stuffed with anemones and shells, new sidewalks to roller-skate down, and meandering streams that emptied onto a seaweed-adorned Waikiki Beach. Hers was a small-town existence, when the tallest building in Honolulu was the new Aloha Tower, handsome Victorian mansions hid behind lush private gardens, the Islands' first elephant, Daisy, arrived by ship and marched in a parade to the zoo, and the city's trolley cars rolled past dirt roads, rice paddies, duck ponds, and thousands of coconut trees. This is a book that should be read as it was lived, with bare feet. So, kick off your shoes and relax and let little Peggy take you back to a hammock between two palms where all you hear is the distant surf and the laughter of children, all you smell is Chinese spices and gardenia, and all you see is how it used to be. It will make you appreciate what Hawai'i still is.

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