DON BLANDING
"Hawaii Says Aloha"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1955
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 160 pages
Poetry, Illustrations (some in color) & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
The sweetest leis
in all our Isles
Are miles and miles
and miles of smiles.
Contents:
| Miles of Smiles Hawaii What is Hawaii Hawaiian Driftwood Aloha Oe Shadows of Beauty Mokihana Lei Hawaii Leaves from My Grass-House Dwellers in Far Islands An Island of Your Own To Leilehua Hula Dancers Luau At a Luau, Hawaiian Feast Diamond Head Glamour's Gone How to Know Hawaii Morning in a Honolulu Garden Poetic Justice Homesick for Kona Beauty Wind-Harp Pool The Kahuna Speaks to a White Man The Heiau on the Hill Kona Holiday Sea Butterflies King Coral's Green-Blue Realm Waikiki Skin-Game Camera Angle, Waikiki Beach Blood on Orchids Things Forgotten The Birth of June Leis... For Remembrance Lei Sellers White Ginger Lei Tutu Aunty Pinau Baby Street Footsteps |
The Blind Chanter Chant to Pele Song of the South Seas Tropical Sunset Aloha House Chinese Store Chinese Shawls Chinese Music The Candlemaker Jewel-Trees Ylang-Ylang Flowers Beachcomber Isle of Pua-Loa From a Javanese Batik Secret Place Prayer of the Drifting Cocoanut Out There Advice to Bachelors Why Do I Return Last Night My Hawaiian Garden This Nagging Urge Brocade Mele of Yesterday's Men Flyer's Halo Hawaiian Panaroma Dawn in the Islands Koa Trees in a Mist Poinciana Regia Tree Night-Blooming Cereus Via "Coconut Wireless" Poi Purple Bougainvillea Vine Winged Journey Gardenia Lei Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill Sunset Over Waianae Mountains Hearts-On-A-String Island Perfumes At. St. Clement's Church |
Letter of Inquiry Flowers of the Rainbow Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun Moon Rainbow Flower Girl Black Point Kapakahi Honolulu Curry To Granny Harris Red Torch Ginger Lei Day Hawaiian June Night Flowers of the Tropics Liquid Sunshine Ala Moana To One Whom I Called Awa Puhi Kilauea Prologue to Beauty Mat Weaver Chant of the Canoe Legend of the Palm Tree My Hawaii And You? Ghost Drums Surf Riders Man of Punaluu Net Menders Black Sands of Kaimu Shadows of Palm Fronds Sugar Sailing Ship, Sailing Diamond Head Canoe and Sea-Bird The Net Tryst At the End of Your Visit Fragment Homesick for the Fair Islands Rising Moon Aloha |
Notes:
Wind-Harp Pool was written for Helen.
Leis... For Remembrance was written for Leatrice Joy.
Tropical Sunset was written from Kimo Wilder's House on Tantalus.
Night-Blooming Cereus was written for Lillian Wilder.
Winged Journey was written for the men of the Hawaii Clipper.
Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun was written for Maitland and Hegenberger.
Lei Day is a holiday which was originated by Don Blanding in 1928.
Tryst was written for Hado.
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