Word: fronds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manicured grass, perched between a 14,000-acre cattle ranch and the sandy half-moon of Hamoa Beach. Manager Tony de Jetley, an urbane Englishman who is married to a beautiful Hawaiian curiously named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return to Hana as faithfully as Maui's whales. Charles Lindbergh, who lived for seven years with his wife Anne in Hana, is now buried there. Near...
...Faeries, Frond...
American Samoa's rural villages are clean and dotted with palm-frond fales (houses), instead of the jumble of cinder block and clapboard houses commonly found in Micronesia. The magnificent Pago Pago harbor that initially attracted the U.S. Navy in 1900 is no longer pristine, but two busy canneries make the trade-off acceptable...
Brando now spends half the year in this retreat, where life and problems are simpler. He lives in a thatch-roofed hut, shaded by tall palm trees, at the edge of a white beach. It is one large room with lift-up frond shutters that invite the gentle sea breeze. In addition to a large bed festooned with mosquito netting, the room contains a refrigerator and gas-fed stove. In the back, separated by a wall, is a flush toilet and shower. The place is comfortable but fairly primitive, very much a man's digs...