Waiheke Pioneers
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<p><strong>The classic story of Waiheke's settler families</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Now with a section on the island's indigenous history by historian Paul Monin</strong> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Beautifully written filled with entertaining anecdotes <em>Waiheke Pioneers</em> is a gem of historical</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </strong></p><p><strong>storytelling</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </strong> </p><p><br></p><p><em>It all started with listening to some of the stories told around our kitchen table.  I found them so</em><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </em></p><p><em>interesting that I started to jot them down.  I suppose I've been collecting the island's history in</em><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </em></p><p><em>notebooks for more than 30 years.</em> </p><p><br></p><p>Dixie Day married into one of Waiheke Island's oldest families in 1940 and thus began a life-long passion<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>for the island its quirky characters and the many stories they told.  In 1972 she and a group of<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>like-minded islanders founded a historical society and eleven years later they opened the island's first<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>museum. Dixie Day passed away in 1996 but her legacy endures. </p><p> </p><p><em>Waiheke Pioneers</em> first published in 1989 is the culmination of nearly half a century of careful research<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>and collation of documents photos and stories. The book has served as an essential resource for<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>historians and family history buffs and its elegant conversational style has endeared it to generations of<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>the island's residents and visitors. This new edition revised and expanded makes the island's pioneer<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p>stories available to a new generation of readers and researchers. </p>
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