Category: History
Hitting ‘Send’ on Book Manuscript
These descendants are now, more than 100 years later, about to have a huge family reunion, and will have this book available for any of the many, many descendants who want to learn more about how their family came to be. There’s information in this book that I’d wager most of them – or maybe even all of them – don’t know. We dug pretty deep to find some of it.
The Sound of Kids Chattering in Hawaiian
I had forgotten about writing this editorial about kids speaking Hawaiian, but stumbled upon it online today (while looking for something else). It was a long time ago. In fact, I wrote this article during the first year I was freelancing as a writer. The newspaper I wrote it for, …
Time Travel Incident?
Don’t you want time travel to be real? I do. How interesting would that be?! This article, All The Evidence that Time Travel is Happening All Around Us, is really fun. It opens with a clip from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie that shows an extra walking down the street that …
‘Writing the Hawaii Memoir’ is Published
I love the cover, which was designed to make it look like a Hawaiian composition book. Isn’t it great? Leslie Lang, Writer, Ghostwriter, Memoir, Biography, Family History, Editor, Hawaii
Investigating a Life – But Whose?
It’s a novel, albeit one using primary historical sources, about a biography. It’s a little complicated to describe, but it works.
Were They Blogging On Cave Walls?
In 1999, Peter Merholz jokingly turned the word “weblog” into the phrase “we blog” in the sidebar of his, well, blog, and gave us the word “blog.”
Memoir: Isabella Bird in the Sandwich Islands
“There is also a dog, but he does not understand English.”— Isabella Bird, from The Hawaiian Archipelago