Sharing the Breath of Life with Lio (w/ video)
By Léo Azambuja It’s Friday afternoon in Kilauea. In a marked circle by the edge of the largest mahogany farm in the country and near a pond half-covered with water lilies, Marti Kitch is longeing a...
View ArticlePrince Kūhiō Festival at the Hyatt
Learn about Kaua‘i’s history and culture during Prince Kūhiō Festival at the Grand Hyatt Kaua‘i Resort & Spa in Po‘ipu March 25-27. The festival celebrates Kaua‘i-born Prince Jonah Kūhiō...
View ArticleHawai‘i Wisdom — March 2016
Aia ke ola i ka ihu o ka lio. “Life is where the horse’s nose points.” The scent of food leads one toward sustenance. Source: ‘Ōlelo of the Day (www.olelooftheday.tumbler.com) Matisse, a blue-eyed...
View ArticleKamokila, Playground of the Ali‘i
By Léo Azambuja Wailua is well known as an area filled with a sheer number of sacred heiau and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But the banks of Wailua River also tell the story of a place where the...
View ArticleRare Book Tour
The Kaua‘i Historical Society will hold a unique Rare Book Tour tomorrow; a behind the scenes private expedition through four locations where some of the rarest books about Hawai‘i have been collected...
View ArticleHawai‘i Wisdom — April 2016
E mahalo kākou i ka mea loa‘a. “Let us be thankful for what we have.” Source: ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, by Mary Kawena Pukui This dry coconut was casually set on a table in the canoe hut in Kamokila Village by...
View ArticleCane Juice, Hops, Yeast — the 1st Hawaiian Beer
By Jan TenBruggencate Early European voyagers got their brew where they could find it. Certainly, ships left their home ports well supplied, generally, with casks of rum, and perhaps bottles of wine,...
View ArticleKe Nani Kapa o Hawai‘i
By Léo Azambuja It was an ordinary early morning. People all around Kaua‘i were just arriving at work. But in Puhi, three Hawaiian schoolchildren were chanting at the edge of a forest, asking for...
View ArticleSailing in the Hikianalia
By Léo Azambuja A few Sundays ago, I was having brunch following a photoshoot, just enjoying good food and company, when I received a text message from my friend Sy Shim, a regular crewmember at the...
View ArticleThe Nearly Lost Art of Weaving Makaloa
By Jan TenBruggencate The loss of wetlands in the Islands to agriculture and development may have resulted in the decline of one of the iconic plants, the tallest of makaloa. This noble sedge, which...
View ArticleKaua‘i — Gateway for Reiki Healing
By Shalandra Abbey Yes, from the little healing island of Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i the healing art of reiki has spread to the rest of the Western World. And it all started from Hawayo Takata, who was born in...
View ArticleHawai‘i Wisdom — May 2016
E nānā mai a uhi kapa ʻeleʻele i a Maui, a kau ka puaʻa i ka nuku, kiʻi mai i ka ʻāina a lawe aku. “Watch until the black tapa cloth covers Maui and the sacrificial hog is offered, then come and take...
View ArticleHeiva i Tahiti
By Léo Azambuja Tahitian dance, known for its excitement, fast drumming, shaking of the hips and challenging steps, has won the hearts of many hula dancers on Kaua‘i. In most Polynesian lu‘au in the...
View ArticleAssembling the Community of Tahiti
In Tahitian, the word heiva (hei meaning to assemble, and va meaning community places) refers to activities, pastimes, physical exercise and festivals. In ancient times, music, dancing, singing and...
View ArticleHawai‘i Wisdom — June
ʻUnu mai a hoʻonuʻanuʻa ke kilu o Kalamaʻula, hoʻoleʻaleʻa i ke kaha o Kaunalewa. “Bring all the kilu for amusement a Kalamaʻula to make merry on the field of Kaunalewa.” To come together for a gay...
View Article8th Annual Kaua‘i Kau Wela Summer Festival at Kamokila Today and Tomorrow
The 8th Annual Kaua‘i Kau Wela Summer Festival at Kamokila Hawaiian Village kicks off this evening at 5 p.m., with the Evening of Wela. The gates open at 4 p.m., and today’s event lasts until 8 p.m....
View ArticleKōloa Plantation
In the early 1800s, Koloa was scarcely inhabited by Hawaiians who grew a variety of kō, or sugarcane, called kōloa, or long sugarcane. But Hawaiians didn’t produce sugar, they chewed the sweet stalks...
View ArticleIn Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple
By Mary Alexander What was it like to be young, in love, living in Hawai‘i, and Japanese-American just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Dr. Melody Miyamoto Walters, a graduate of Waimea High School...
View ArticleLet’s Bon Dance and Celebrate Our Roots!
By Gerald Hirata It’s that time of the year again, when we host the largest event on our calendar. It’s our temple’s biggest fundraiser and it’s Kaua‘i’s most festive Bon Dance celebration! This year...
View ArticleLīhuʻe — Root and Branch of a Hawaiʻi Town
Pat L. Griffin, author of Līhuʻe — Root and Branch of a Hawaiʻi Town, thoroughly researched the history, changes and personalities that evolved into the island’s civic center. On July 26, she will...
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