To the Editor:

Newtown has become something I wouldn’t have imagined growing up here in the 50s and 60s, back when the discussions were about whether or not to have a traffic light at Church Hill Road and Queen Street. Until then, there was only the one at the Main Street Route 202 [now Route 302] intersection. What happened? You can’t go to Google Images or Google without getting inundated with bad news.

I would love to start a positive blog. Something where people could go and learn about growing up in what I thought was the closest to heaven I could be.  Maybe just maybe we could change what the world sees one letter at a time. The sand pits, the cornfield, the trestles, skating on Hawley Pond by the light of or parents cars, the Boy Scout cabin we built ourselves with a free running spring to drink from …

What about it?

Try me out.

Terry O’Connor

51 416 Kamehameha Highway, Kaaawa HI             July 4, 2015