| I asked on usenet if anyone had heard about the Hawaii thing.
I got two responses:
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From: [email protected] (Neil Midkiff)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Re: looking for Hawaii article in Colorado newspaper
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
...
Here's the Associated Press article as printed in the San Jose Mercury News:
WASHINGTON (AP) --
The National Park Service is seriously considering a proposal that
would sanction nude sunbathing at one of its facilities in Hawaii, an
Interior Department official said Saturday.
"We're a long way from a formal declaration," said Steve Goldstein, a
spokesman for Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan, whose agency oversees
the Park Service.
Goldstein said the proposal is part of a draft management plan for the
Koloko-Honokohua National Historical Park, scheduled to open in the
fall. The superintendent of the new park made the proposal to a
regional Park Service director, he said.
However, Lujan has not seen the plan, Goldstein said, and there have
been no official discussions of the proposal at Interior.
The proposal must be considered in public hearings and approved by
Park Service Director James M. Ridenour.
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If anybody finds out how to express support for this plan, please post
the information so we can all get behind it.
-Neil
[it sounds like the Colorado Paper article was longer]
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From: [email protected] (David Haight)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Re: looking for Hawaii article in Colorado newspaper
Date: 3 Jun 91 22:27:56 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR.
...
There was note of this in the last news segment of Good Morning America
this morning. After which the news guy and Spenser the weatherman
traded a pun or two
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| How the article ran in Honolulu (from usenet):
From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Hawaii CO Beach Proposal
Date: 5 Jun 91 06:06:09 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
From the Honolulu Star Bulletin
Tuesday, June 4, 1991
Page A-3
"Nudists bare their backing of park in Kona"
'Both national and local groups like the idea, a Maui man says'
By Rod Thompson, Big Island correspondent
HONOKOHAU, Hawaii--A proposal to permit continued nude bathing
and sunbathing at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in
Kona is being advocated by local and national nudist groups, Maui
nudist Peter Rowley says.
Rowley heads the Friends of Little Beach Association, which
tried to persuade the state to permit nude bathing at Little
Beach on Maui last year.
Rowley said his group is a member of the Naturist Society,
which has its headquarters in Wisconsin and a lobbyist in
Washington, D.C. That organization and the American Sunbathing
Association have advocated nudity at Kaloko-Honokohau, he said.
If approved, the site would become the first clothing-optional
beach in the national park system, a Washington Post report said
last week.
A National Park Service spokesman says consideration of the
idea doesn't imply commitment to it. "The Park Service hasn't
made up its mind about anything," Honolulu-based park planner
Gary Barabano said.
Nude bathing has taken place at Honokohau Beach for more than
a decade, but became an issue only after the Park Service
acquired 235 acres there last year.
The land was combined with 421 acres the Park Service acquired
previously, and three public meetings were held in January to get
ideas on how to manage the park, Barbano said.
Formal hearings on a management plan are expected next year,
he said.
Rowley said he spoke at all three January meetings, two on the
Big Island and on in Honolulu. He advocated a clothing-optional
designation for the beach and prohibition of boom boxes, video
cameras, beach chairs and umbrellas.
Kaloko and Honokohau were the sites of two pre-Captain Cook
Hawaiian villages about four miles north of Kailua-Kona.
They contain 234 historical and archaeological sites.
Since the villages predate the missionary period, customs that
preceded the missionaries, such as nudity, should also be
allowed, Rowley argued.
That's an argument that didn't make any headway with some
people closely connected with the park.
Publicity about the clothing-optional proposal "struck me in a
negative way," said park Superintendent Francis Kuailani. He
saw the main thrust for nudity coming from Washington, evidenced
by the visit to the park about two weeks ago of a lobbyist for
the Naturist Society.
Kuailani says he is powerless to stop nudity at the beach
because there is no regulation against it.
David "Mauna" Roy Jr., executive officer of the local study
commission that recommended the creation of the park in 1974,
said he was very disturbed by the nudist proposal.
"I'm a little disappointed that the federal government has
even taken seriously the consideration of something like this,"
he said.
Roy said he was not aware of nudism at Honokohau whenthe
commission did its work in the early 1970s.
When he visited the beach in 1979 with a group of his private
students of Hawaiian culture, he was embarrassed to find nude
people there. He never went back, he said.
Bruno Keith, 80, a historian living in Kailua-Kona, favors
nudism at the beach. Nudism was common there before World War
II, he said.
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