A special publication, “By the Grace of God: Life in a Marshall Islands Church,” by writer-photographer Floyd K. Takeuchi of Honolulu is now available at an online bookseller. Floyd’s self-published 20-page magazine, also known as a ‘zine, features photographs he made in 2018 while attending a Sunday service at the Rairok Protestant Church. The magazine […]
FLOYD K. TAKEUCHI Majuro Atoll in the late 1950s defined a quiet, slightly shabby backwater Pacific port town. There were still many reminders of the war, which had ended only about 15 years earlier. Among the obvious reminders were Quonset huts, pre-fabricated half-moon structures whose skin was corrugated metal, which were commonplace. Two of the […]
One of the great cultural achievements on Majuro in the 1950s was Fr. Hacker’s Marching Band. Fr. Leonard Hacker, SJ, was the Jesuit who built up Assumption Church and School after the war. And the native of Buffalo, NY, who almost always wore khaki pants and shirt with sensible black brogues, somehow managed to get […]
