The name"Puette" is derived from the old Saxon word for magpie and the typically French diminutive "ette" was added by the Normans at the time of the conquest of 1066.

The shield design appearing as background to this page is a crest that dates back to the crusades in which an ancient ancestor presumably distinguished himself in battle/pillage. The three yellow circles represent "bezants" or coins from the crusades.

The name "Puette" is, therefore, a British surname and harkens back to old Staffordshire. Details of the family's movement to America have not been tied down yet, but there is evidence of migration from old Virginia to Lenoir, North Carolina around 1790.

Born & raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I am a long-time resident of the State of Hawai'i. My first real job was teaching at a public school on the island of Maui.

I love to read Asian Literatures, and U.S and Hawaiian history, particularly Civil War era. I am an unrepentant writer, and author of all manner of arcana, pamphlets, chapboooks, poems and of these books: A Readers Guide to the Tale of Genji (Tuttle, 1983), The Hilo Massacre(UH, 1988), and Through Jaundiced Eyes (ILR Press, 1992).

If you are interested in the professional me, please click on my RÉSUMÉ & VITA button.

For a deeper look at some of my personal interests & eccentricities, follow the arrow "Forth."

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Otherwise, Aloha and Mahalo (thanks) for surfing by.