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This mobile friendly site is a complete telephone directory for American Samoa with information resources and a photo gallery.  Looking up numbers for people, businesses and government offices in American Samoa is quick and easy. 

Joseph Kennedy, The Sitting Man

THE SITTING MAN

Joseph Kennedy

            There is a haunting part of the big island of Hawaii that few people know about.  It spreads seaward away from three active volcanoes and is formed by successions of old lava flows that have spilled down from the sometimes angry, purple mountains towering in the background.   This is not the dreamer’s version of verdant islands but rather a hot, desolate and silent territory devoid of water and all but scrub vegetation.

Joseph Kennedy

Joseph Kennedy (1948-2012) was an archaeologist, historian, and author, who devoted much of his later career to the study of American Samoa. I have assembled here a small monument garden to Joe--a brief memoir, my foreword to his book Tropical Frontier: America's South Sea Colony, and an article by Joe about what it means to be an archaelogist, "The Sitting Man."

Joe Kennedy                                               

            It has been almost a year since Joe Kennedy died. I got a call. He had just not woken up that morning. Cindy thought I should be among the first to know. Cindy worked for Joe, was another of his loyal fans. She was crying over the phone. They were dying off now, all the people who meant something, who made sense and made you laugh. One by one the ultimate sniper was picking them off—a heart attack here, a brain tumor there, sudden fatal cancers. Not waking up was a new one. Way to go, Joey.

Branding American Samoa

Where has Pago Pago gone?  Not many years ago Pago Pago was used extensively in advertising and commercial branding.  Now it is all but gone. 

Sure, all our addresses are Pago Pago, American Samoa or Pago Pago, AS.  But Pago Pago as a brand and as an interesting name for our islands is not being used much anymore.  And that’s a real shame because Pago Pago has so much exotic appeal while American Samoa has none.

How do you pronounce Pago Pago?  What does Pago Pago mean?  “Where the hell is Pago Pago?” was once a popular and fun question.  When people hear Pago Pago, they want to know more about it.  The name arouses interest and causes people to ask more questions and/or to google Pago Pago.    

Digital Telephone Directory Is Here

American Samoa Telephone Directory CoverYou will find this site to be an excellent resource for obtaining telephone numbers and additional information on businesses and government offices in American Samoa.

The site is mobile friendly, meaning the format automatically adjusts to accommodate the device it is being viewed on.  You will see entirely different layouts on each kind of device.  On small mobile devices such as smartphones, it is best to view the site in landscape mode although most features render nicely in portrait mode.

Amending the Bucket List: A Trip to Rose Atoll

by Mark Kneubuhl - newsbyrd.com

(August 6, 2012)  There’s a lot of ocean that surrounds Rose Atoll. The closest “major” port is Pago Pago about 140 miles to the west. Auckland harbor is about 1500 miles southwest and Pearl Harbor, about 2500 miles northeast. Rose Atoll is a rather remote outlier in a sparsely populated part of the planet called Oceania.

Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1973 when the American Samoa Legislature approved an agreement between the Governor and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Additionally, President Bush created Rose Atoll Marine National Monument in 2009, which extends 50 nautical miles from Rose Atoll. One has to be within five miles (that’s on a clear day), to spot the atoll’s highest point, no taller than a chimney on a single-story house.

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