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"The Man Who Loved Lahaina: George Freeland"
by Peter F. Hamilton(Peter F. Hamilton, $23.95)
Isle Pages
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Reviewed by Burl Burlingame
bburlingame@starbulletin.com"The Man Who Loved Lahaina: George Freeland" Freeland was the legendary builder and manager of the historic Pioneer Inn in Lahaina, now known as the Best Western -- Pioneer Inn; Hamilton is his grandson. Freeland was an Englishman caught up in the Gold-Rush fever of the late 1800s and settled in what was then a remote corner of Maui. His vision for the future helped establish the town as a prime visitor destination. This privately published volume will certainly please the relatives. It has so-so photographic reproduction and just-OK typography. For the rest of us, it illuminates a little-known period of Hawaiian history -- the erosion of the Hawaiian way of life on the outer islands, combined with the sort of enthusiastic community boosterism that characterized American life at the turn of the century. For scholars of this era, the book is anecdote-rich.
by Peter F. Hamilton(Peter F. Hamilton, $23.95)
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