Susan C. Riford was an American author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who was also a passionate proponent of theater education for children. She wrote over fifty children's plays and books during her thirty-year tenure as founder and head of Auburn Children's Theater in Auburn, New York. A long-time member of the New York State Council on the Arts, she was for years fascinated by the story of Opukahaia. She wrote Black Rocks and Rainbows as her final work before she died in 1997 in Maui, Hawaii.
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High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, an irrepressibly curious native boy dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary adventure that will change history. Young Hiapo Opukahaia (Hee-ah-poh Oh-p... SEE MORE