My last stop in Hawaii is Punahou School in Honolulu — Obama’s school from 5th grade on. Barry tagged his name in the concrete, and writer/teacher Marion Lyman-Mersereau said his pal’s last name was King, there you go! Marion’s 8th graders were writing Slam poems on contemporary issues — bullying, global warming. Learning Hawaiian. She herself wrote Eddie Wen’ Go, the biography of Eddie Aikau, who paddled off on his surf board to get help when the voyaging canoe Hokule`a and 17 crewmembers capsized on its second open-ocean voyage, headed to Tahiti, guided by the stars. The crewmembers, including Marion, were rescued; Eddie was never seen again.
