Tiny Pineapple

ananas comosus (L.) minimus

Hawaii’s Best, America’s Favorite!

Hawaii's Best, America's Favorite!

Hawaii’s Best, America’s Favorite!

Visitors and islanders enjoy sampling ripe fresh Royal Hawaiian pineapple at Dole’s “space age” fruit stand in the middle of the fields at Wahiawa.

Do It On Television

“If any reader of this book is in the grip of some habit of which he is deeply ashamed, I advise him not to give way to it in secret but to do it on television. No-one will pass him with averted gaze on the other side of the street. People will cross the road at the risk of losing their own lives in order to say, ‘We saw you on the telly.’”

— Quentin Crisp
How to Become a Virgin, 1981

Pineapple Harvesting in our 50th State Hawaii

Pineapple Harvesting in our 50th State Hawaii

The mechanical harvesting machine which extends across the pineapple fields. Field hands walk behind the boom and handpick the ripe fruit selectively, place it on the arm, and a conveyer rolls it into the truck. Note the rich red highly mineralized soil on which Hawaii’s second largest industry depends.

Army Nurse in Cyprus

by Gladys Fullbrook (1966)
Army Nurse in Cyprus

When Polly went out to Cyprus to join the boy she loved, she thought that she had lost him to Sylvia, the wealthy, beautiful half-Cypriot girl.

Could the love of Major David Bicknell mend her broken heart?