Waking Up in Eden (34 page)

Thanks to Keith Robinson for a memorable trip to his
Outlaw Plant Preserve and John Fay at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Also thanks to Michael Faye for sharing the history of plantation cottages and to Puna Dawson for outrigger canoe history. Thanks also to Alan Wong and his kitchen staff for allowing me to watch them cook.

In Illinois, I am grateful to Etta Arntzen, David Bowman, and Jerry Soesbe at Allerton Park for their interviews and their guidance on source material.

Thanks also go to all my friends on Kauai and elsewhere who encouraged me during this long project and on all the adventures and mishaps of life in general. You are too numerous to list, but know that you are dear to me. I am grateful to have worked with Gene Roberts and the rest of our generation at
The Philadelphia Inquirer
when journalism excellence and experimentation were the norm. The
Inquirer
provided a home and a place to grow up journalistically—a process I'm still completing. Thanks also to the National Tropical Botanical Garden staff and trustees, past and current, for preserving the Garden and all its satellites as the national treasures they truly are.

A note on Hawaiian language: the current use of diacritical marks for Hawaiian words remains uneven in adoption, but loaded with political significance. In Hawaii, two diacritical marks are used—the
‘okina
glottal stop, similar to the sound between the syllables of “oh-oh,” and the
kahako
macron, which lengthens and adds stress to the marked vowel. For greater reading ease and consistency, I have most often chosen to forego use of these marks, but mean no disrespect to the native language tradition.

Archival research was conducted at the State of Hawaii Library, the National Tropical Botanical Garden library, the
Kauai Historical Society, the Kauai Public Libraries, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Piatt County Historical Society in Illinois, the Allerton Park estate, the Allerton archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the British Library, and the Library of Congress.

I remain indebted to the people of Kauai for welcoming me.

Lucinda Fleeson

   Washington, D.C.

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L
UCINDA
F
LEESON
is director of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. A reporter at the
Philadelphia Inquirer
for many years, she has received an Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism, a McGee Journalism Fellowship in Southern Africa, a Knight International Press Fellowship, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Before settling in Washington, D.C., she lived in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Budapest, Botswana, and most notably, Kauai.