If you love Maui, want to know more about the visitor experience…
..are planning a trip, or even a longtime local you will enjoy more than 60 short tales of Hawaiians, Musicians, Artists, entrepreneurs and colorful characters and more . Purchase book here based on 10 years of popular award-winning columns in Lahaina News by Norm Bezane SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE FROM AUTHOR NORM BEZANE.
Amazon posts first reviews on my fourth book.
Two reviews have captured the essence of Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui.
“This is one of the best sources… to learn of other peoples’ take on the Maui experience. There were a few items I had not found in the standard histories of the Hawaiian nation. Good to know. But best, to me, were the short visits with Mauians of all sorts – This is a book you can read straight through, or dip into here and there as the spirit moves. It’s great!”
And a second review:
“This book was very helpful to me as a new resident .on the island. For one thing it is kind of a primer on the culture offering insights in short essays on the Hawaii of old and the major changes from arrival of missionaries to the plantation and later tourism transformed the island. The author wrote stories about everyday people, some funny, to give me a better sense of the people I may be able to meet in my comings and goings. In a sense it is a kind of guide to living here.”
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- AMAZING PERFORMER
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- GRAMMY WINNER
MODERN HULA CELEBRATES MAUI CULTURE
An amazing 70 years ago when large number of visitors began to visit Maui Hawaiians abandoned glitzy costumes for those traditional.
Knowing Maui More: Where there is no smoke…
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there is no fire. The iconic Pioneer Mill smokestack, refurnished after the close of West side sugar operations, stands as a sentinel marking the location of the historic town of Lahaina. Stories about the three people most influential in preserving the history of Lahaina appear in my new book Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui.
Click link to knowi Maui more: Pig-out
Visitors watch as a pig is removed from emu at the Sheraton Maui luau. The porker cooked all day in the traditional Hawaiian way, dropped in a pit, covered with leaves and hot stones.
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Getting to know Maui: Why this is the month for showers?
From the author of Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui 
No April showers for Maui (this is not the rainy season) . Instead you can enjoy the blossoms of shower trees, making in this case a sea of yellow on the lawn of the Kaanapali Beach Hotel recently. You can see em, but you do not have to rake em.
WHAT DO WHALES AND COOKIE CUTTERS HAVE IN COMMON: 30 Days of Whale Tales
Some 10,000 visitors this month are frolicking in the ocean. Humpback whales are the target of sharks called cookie cutters whose bites are to whales as cookie cutters are to dough.
THIS IS THE FIRST OF DAILY REPORTS, SOME FULL LENGTH STORIES, BASED ON TALKS AT THE FEB.25-26, BASED ON TALKS BY THE WORLD’S LEADING RESEARCHERS GATHERED TOGETHER BY WHALE TRUST MAUI, the premier group supporting whale research in the Hawaiian Islands. Three researchers are the subject of a profile in my new book.
WHY 30 DAYS OF WHALES? For 30 years or more, the waters of Maui have been a paradise for researchers. Not enough has been reported at least here on what has been discovered about these magnificent creatures, the source of so much attention by visitors. This is this site’s small contribution to closing this gap. And the whales are just one more example of why Maui is such a magical place, the theme of Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui. Remarkable whales and remarkable people of aloha that make this the greatest place on earth.–Norm Bezane
(There is no longer my Voices of Maui Beyond the Beach column in Lahaina News. Here, in the new digital age, you will now be able to find more on what makes Maui, Maui.)
SLIDE SHOW: What could you find on Maui’s Canoe Beach today?
From http://voicesalohamagicalmaui.org: Artists painting plein aire (in the open air) in annual event in which they get two hours to complete a painting start to finish on a picturesque site. Paintings done over past week to be unveiled at Royal Lahaina Resort this weekend.
GET IT NOW ON LINE: My Fourth Book Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui: Remarkable people who are part of the visitor experience plus kings, queens, warriors missionaries and how they transformed Maui and set the stage for today’s modern Maui.
MY NEW BOOK DEBUTS: Maui revealed for travelers and those who love Maui, including many who return year after year, a Maui guide “Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui” that showcases Kaanapali and Maui one of most popular tourist destinations in the world (2.5 million visitors annually), and the remarkable people of aloha who have built modern Maui.
CLICK THE BUY MY BOOK LINK ABOVE TO PURCHASE TO READ ABOUT REMARKABLE PEOPLE OF ALOHA:
Maui Time Weekly says the author writings “are intriguing and illuminating and provides a handy guide for anyone who has been on the island 24 hours.”
Chicago Tribune Rick Kogan in a radio interview said to the author: “you are the voice of Maui and have the same spirit as (Pulitzer Prize winner) Mike Royko. Your writing reminds me of what he used to write”.
The focus is short tales of a bartender who has made 400,000 mai tais, the surfer/hostess who once posed for Playboy, musicians, artists and colorful characters, the king who united the islands, the queen who lost a kingdom, missionaries, sugar and tourists kings who shaped modern Maui.
Readers will also to know and understand Hawaiians, what they do and what they think about the transformation of this wonderful place from monarcjy, to U.S. territory to state. and what they think say for those who want to understand their cultural experience while here.
Norm Bezane, awarded top two recognition for writing one of the top best feature newspaper columns in the State of Hawaii as well as one of the best independent journalists by the the Society of Professional Journalist’ s Honolulu chapter has included the best of 250 short profiles from his popular Maui newspaper column that debuted in 2006.
The unique accounts loved by visitors and “locals” alike are among the few that tell the story of contemporary remarkable people who have made Maui Maui, the greatest place on earth.
