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Quality Time with the Rothman Hui
By Noa MyersOne sunny afternoon I walked through the front gate of the Rothman family lot. Upstairs, I met up with Makua Rothman, the oldest son of the family, and his friends, Kai Garcia and Kala Alexander, who was giving an ukulele lesson to Makua’s younger brothers, Koa and Lono. For a family known to open their home in the past, the trend is just as strong today, and even I, a young and nervous surf journalist, felt their welcome and took seat on a stool in the corner.
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After thirty years of delivering Eddie Aikau’s tall tale in an
understandably heavy tone, Marion Lyman-Mersereau now shares the story
with a new spirit. Eddie Wen’ Go: The Story of the Upside-Down Canoe
tells the tragedy of the Hokule‘a on its unsuccessful voyage in 1978
from the perspective of marine life, based on her own experience as the
only female aboard at the time of the capsize.
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