The Oldtimers Book cover type:Paperback he has enjoyed crafting essays

he has enjoyed crafting essays for his annual publication

Basic training was difficult enough-with its overzealous drill sergeants intense heat and scorpions-a relationship with an emotionally distraught girlfriend threw Sawicki into a tailspin

Through the 1970's

loss and survival

in the end

The Oldtimers Book cover type:Paperback he has enjoyed crafting essaysIn his third collection of poetry, acclaimed writer Wing Tek Lum examines Honolulu's Chinatown at the turn of the twentieth century through historically grounded verse. The Oldtimers gives voice to a generation of Chinese bachelors who journeyed across the Pacific for work. As field laborers, cooks, merchants, laundrymen, and more, they helped shape Hawaii's future, though their stories remained largely unrecorded. Far from home, they endured