Frazier Book Signing
Author Frances Halia Nelson Frazier recently signed copies of her new memoir, Halia of Hawaii, A Legacy of Language, at an island Borders. The book’s editor, Dawn Fraser Kawahara, read excerpts to an audience of about 50. Frazier, who turned 96 last month, is a designated living treasure of Kaua’i and well-known translator of the Hawaiian language. She studied under and worked with Mary Kawena Pukui and received numerous awards for her translation of Kamehameha and His Warrior Kekuhaupio, a serial that appeared in a Hawaiian language newspaper in the 1920s.
Photos by Anne E. O’Malley
- Richard and Jean Lawrence
- Frances Frazier and Dawn Kawahara
- Audience members at Frazier’s book signing.
- Elizabeth Harvath, Helen Yahner and Susan Remoaldo
- Frances Frazier with (back) Stephanie Frazier, Mike Cheek and Kristin Frazier
- Sonia and Stephen Bardin
- Sue Kanoho, Mark and Haunani Rossi
- Helaine Perel
- Alice Parker, Frances Frazier and John Wehrheim
- Eleanor Nishita, Paul Littmann, Betty Moore and Allen O’Brien
- Char Dyer
- Manu Medeiros and Marty Kuala
- Olga Urminska and Marge Freeman