Posted on: Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Editorial
Bob Krauss, capturing our history on the fly

While much of Hawai'i was busy yesterday reading the special section on veteran Advertiser columnist Bob Krauss and his half-century of adventures, Krauss was on the phone, digging up his latest story.

That's how Krauss works. In the lexicon of the newspaper game, he is a consummate "leg man." He doesn't wait for stories (although more than his share flow his way after five decades in the Islands), he chases after them.

And there's this: After all those years in the business, Bob Krauss is anything but jaded. He is constantly amazed, amused and astounded by what he learns in his daily rounds of Our Honolulu.

Every day is a day of discovery. And lucky readers get to share in his discoveries.

Over the years, Krauss has chronicled some of our greatest moments and our saddest times. He takes delight in the silly and he lovingly tends to local traditions (heck, he probably even invented one or two over the years).

As an author of many books, ranging from light travel pieces to serious biographies of titans such as anthropologist Kenneth Emory and legendary mayor Johnny Wilson, Krauss is a serious historian of our Island story.

But the history Krauss has captured is not restricted to his books. In ways great and small, it is also captured in each and every one of more than 8,000 newspaper columns.

We can't wait to see what's coming next.