John Enright
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA
John Enright passed away on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 after a long illness. The following is an obituary he wrote for himself. His sister Rosemary who let us know of his passing, was not sure when it was written, possibly a decade ago:
“One of the great losses of the 19th...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — From the author of the popular Jungle Beat series, former American Samoa resident, John Enright set his new novel in San Francisco.
A city, three lives, four decades, poems, drugs, booze, hippies, love, lust, loss — just keep moving. Some relationships linger across...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has issued a proclamation declaring next week as “Jazz in American Samoa Week” in celebration of the origins of Samoan jazz in American Samoa.
According to the proclamation the origins of “Samoan jazz” lays with the Rivers Family from Apia...