When my grandmother was in her early forties, she visited Hawaii & was pulled out of the audience at a Don Ho concert. He told her he would teach her the hula dance. “No,” she answered. “I’m going to teach you the Charleston.”
So she did.
Noreen Ruth Wink
She was a strong-willed lady, my grandmother, and she loved Boo dearly.
She died on October 30th, 2009.
When I am in Hawaii I will smile, thinking of her doing the Charleston at a Don Ho concert.
Aloha, for now.
Don Ho was one of those celebrities that I found to be overwhelmingly cornball when I was a lad. I, and my companions, used to laugh at people like him. Now that I am a geezer, I find I miss those types terribly. In fact, I am now such a sentimental sap, I even miss “Hee Haw.” (Please shoot me.)
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All I watch is 70s TV. Can you say “Gene Rayburn”?
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Oh, man…I LOVE your grandmother! What a cool lady she must have been.
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I’m with Martie on your grandmother’s coolness. Have a great, relaxing, restoring, peaceful and beautiful time in Hawaii. I am assuming you made it out ahead of our winter storm event?
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mahalo
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Isn’t that “thank you?”
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