The Life of the People
Keeping the Magic Alive
…Sleight of Mind with “Arneleo the Great” and “The Great Barusky” …By Marya Mann… Although the element of surprise is the capstone in the magician’s pyramid of tricks, magic is no accident. Just ask two Kona tricksters who found serious commitment in a very funny business. Is it optical illusion or supernatural sympathy with a [...]
Youth Inspire All to Dream of a New Earth
…Sustainable Hawai‘i Youth Leadership Initiative …By Marya Mann… On the sunlit day, outdoors at the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Skyla (“Sky”) D. Graig-Murray, a student at West Hawai‘i Explorations Academy, asks this question: “How often have you asked a young person what is their dream for their life, and expect a real answer? Youth are [...]
A Beloved Daughter Retires
…By Fern Gavelek… She walks through the treasure-filled rooms—fingering the china, straightening a photo frame, smoothing a quilted bedspread and then opening wide an upstairs window. As the fresh air fills the stately bedroom, Aunty Fanny turns around and grins. If only rooms could talk. Fanny Au Hoy has been telling the stories of these [...]
Professing Change
…By Jessica Kirkwood… As humanity faces ecological degradation, increasing social and economic inequality and a growing sense of fear, dissatisfaction and unrest, UH-Hilo Professor Dr. Catherine Becker wants her students to imagine and create a Hawai‘I that is environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually uplifting. She is purely their facilitator, their guide. As an eccentric, [...]
Pages from Cowboy Romance and Reality
…By Catherine Tarleton… When I was a little girl, I caught horse fever early and as fervently as a suburban D.C. kid could. I read every horse book in two libraries, drew pictures, wrote stories and fought my brother for control of the knob on our little black-and-white TV to watch the cowboys ride Trigger, [...]
The Parrots of Pana‘ewa
…By Alan D. McNarie… It’s noon on a Wednesday at the Pana‘ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo, and Jan Comstock and Zoe are having some quality time at a picnic table. Let’s play “find the nut,” says Jan. “Mac nut,” says Zoe, emphatically. Only it sounds more like “Nyak nut.” Sort of a cross between “mac [...]
Navigating the Universe from Mauna Kea
Navigating the Universe from Mauna Kea: Science and Sensitivity …By Marya Mann, Photos by Tom Kerr… On the astronomical clock, our sun isn’t very old. Estimated by scientists to be 4.5 billion years young, the mighty sun helped spawn the early Earth. Out of light, action and inter-planetary collisions – or collaborations — the natural [...]
Kaliko Beamer-Trapp
Kaliko Beamer-Trapp: A British Transplant and his Love Affair with ‘Olelo Hawai‘i …By Alan D. McNarie… Kaliko Beamer-Trapp sits with two students in a tiny conference room at the offices of Kahuawaiola, the teacher training and certification program for Hawaiian language immersion schools, in a redwood “temporary building” on the University of Hawai‘i Hilo Campus. [...]
Young Entrepreneurs Grow Organik
Young Entrepreneurs Grow Organik …From Coffee Bags to Recycled Plastic, it all goes into Clothing and Accessories… By Hadley Catalano … It was a rainy day in late spring and Ed Fernandez had to pick up coffee bags. Not for harvesting purposes but for his popular organic and sustainable clothing and accessories company, Organik. Traversing [...]
Chefs of the Future Benefit…
Chefs of the Future Benefit from “Christmas at the Fairmont” — Dining with the Chefs: 22 Years of Delicious! …By Devany Vickery-Davidson… It’s the Big Island’s largest Christmas party and it’s all for a good-tasting, good cause. Each Christmas since 1989, The American Culinary Federation (ACF) of Kona Kohala Chefs have worked to raise funds [...]
The Life in Art
Up from the Ashes
…Pit-firing Ceramic Vessels with Tim Freeman… By John J. Boyle… A close examination of a pit-fired ceramic vessel created by potter and philosopher Tim Freeman reveals details reminiscent of Hawai‘i’s active volcano. The artist, who makes his home near Kīlauea’s burning, living fire, is exploring creation from clay with...
Carousel of Aloha
…Bringing a Dream to Life… By Alan D. McNarie… Juanette Baysa has a dream. It’s not a dream that will lead to an end to all war or a universal source of clean energy or anything that ambitious. It’s just the sort that helps to make life a little nicer. It involves a little park [...]The Life in Music
Community Building with...
…Andy Andrews and Fun with P.U.K.A…. By Shirley Stoffer… Andy Andrews, co-founder of the legendary ‘Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz in California, is now bringing his love of people, music and fun to the Big Island of Hawai’i. Those of us who know him were certain that it would only be a matter of time [...]
Driving Fast with Brittni...
…A Young ‘Ukulele Virtuoso Speeding Toward Stardom …By Shirley Stoffer… The music world keeps opening new doors for Brittni Paiva, the 23-year-old ‘ukulele star from Hilo. She has been making music since the age of four, when she started playing piano. At age 11, her uncle gave her an ‘ukulele and there has been no [...]
Konabob and the Unique Kona...
…By Shirley Stoffer… Bob Stoffer, known as “Konabob” to many people in Hawai’i and around the world, had loved Hawai’i and Hawaiian music for a long time before moving to the island. He listened to Hawaiian music at his bakery in the mountains of Colorado, with a picture of Gabby Pahinui and a map of [...]The Life in Spirit
Kaulana Hawai‘i
Na Wai Puna o Kona – Na Kupuna Kaulana Hawai’i lā Nā mea Aloha lā Eia ho’i ke ola lā ‘O Hawai’i Famous is Hawai’i Loveable things indeed Present is the life Hawai’i Kamehameha Hawai’i lā Mō’i ka moku lā Eia ho’i ke ola lā ‘O Hawai’i Kamehameha of Hawai’i Chief of this island Present [...]
Aia ke Aloha ke Nana Aku
…Love is There When We Seek …Na Kumu Keala Ching… ‘Ohu’ohu o ka lani i ‘ike aku Kūlia a’ela ka lā i ka lewa Wahi ola nā kūpuna i lōkahi ai Aia ana ke aloha ke nānā aku A mist of heaven is seen As the sun strives upon high A place where ancestors gather [...]
