Georgia O’Keeffe was paid to go to the islands to paint by Dole Pineapple. She returned with some lovely paintings but no picture of a pineapple, so Dole had one sent to her in New York. She finally did finish it and the image was used in advertising.
I’m so glad she went there - it is one of my dearest places. The place where I first experienced real comfort, luxury, generosity, and freedom of spirt and body, of cleanliness and soaring open water and sky, of intense green spiked with black lava. Pineapples, coconuts, macadamia nuts, papaya, kiwi, ginger, maile blossoms - the island fruits of desire and plenty.
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