- Miss America Pageant History
- The Miss Hawaii Pageant is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, while its parent, the Miss America Pageant, traces its roots 27 years earlier to 1921. Did the Miss America Pageant block minorities from competing?
The Pageant did have Rule #7 in the 1930s, which stipulated “contestants must be of good health and of the [...]
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by Bob Sigall
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photos by courtesy of the Honolulu Advertiser
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- The Gift of Guitar
- From performing at private parties for Bill Clinton to playing with artists like Eric Clapton, musician Jeff Peterson’s career has been anything but ordinary.Born on Maui, Jeff grew up on Haleakala Ranch listening to the traditional Hawaiian music his father, a paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy, played for him. Initially, as a self-taught artist, Jeff learned [...]
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by Samantha Black
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