Casino Dealer / Baseball Obsessed Bruce King Visits NKYS

07/08/20 • 69 min

Nobody Knows Your Story

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White Chief in Hawai'i? What? John Young, Advisor to King Kamehameha

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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is intended for folks who enjoy history and learning about people who have lived an interesting life. (If you enjoy Hawai'ian history, you'll really find this story of interest.)

So, today’s podcast, episode ten of Nobody Knows Your Story is about the great white Chief, friend and advisor to Kamehameha; John Young.

Can you imagine being marooned on an island in the South Seas? Well, John was left behind on a tropical island, facing death from his captors but survived. Not only did he survive but he became a trusted military advisor and friend to the tough Hawai’ian Chief who one day would unite all of the islands of Hawai’I into a kingdom.

Married to a relative of the king, Young went on to become one of the ali’i, the ruling caste of the islands, and in a long and busy lifetime amassed wealth and power. He was the “white ali’i”, and his reputation lived on long after his death.

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Maui Farmer's Market Enthusiast, Rick Graves Visits NKYS

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My wife Judy and I had planned on visiting Hawai’I in May or June to spend time with our daughter, granddaughter, and son in law AND do several podcast interviews. Now we are on hold until this Coronavirus pandemic gets to a point where traveling becomes a safe thing to do.

But I have several Hawai’I friends with interesting life stories and decided I can wait no longer to hear from some of them. In this episode of Nobody Knows Your Story, I visit with Rick Graves, a friend who lives in Hawai’I on the island of Maui.

Rick has immersed himself in the central Maui town of Wailuku where in 2016 he purchased a home in a quiet Okinawan neighborhood, centered around the Hongwanji mission. He lived in the backyard while getting the plantation style house restored to its former 1930's glory. It was a lot of work and money, but a dream come true, with Rick’s life centered around building community agriculture and distributing great organic produce to the neighborhood by home built bicycle cart/ and a small farm stand.

Before Rick became a fulltime Maui resident, he visited often. He talks about why he wanted to make the island of Maui his home and how living in New Zealand as a youth prepared him for the direction his life has taken.