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Journeys of Discovery: Hawaii’s oldest food festival celebrates Kona coffee culture

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer

Published May 17, 2019 at 2:18 PM PDT

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Correspondent Tom Wilmer (left) visits with Valerie Corcoran, president of the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival.

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Greenwell Farms Kona coffee plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Thomas Wilmer

The Big Island of Hawaii’s 49th annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival—with more than 40 individual events—is scheduled for the first ten days in November. Join correspondent Tom Wilmer for an in-depth conversation with festival president Valerie Corcoran as she shares insights about Kona coffee’s history on the Big Island and highlights of the 2019 festival.

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Tom Wilmer

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.

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