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One-of-a-kind Tour Features Historic Preservation Success Story! Join us on Saturday, April 7 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. for an exclusive tour highlighting a preservation success story! Bring the family! Suitable for all ages. SPACE IS LIMITED. The Farm: Sweet Land Farm, Oahu's only certified goat dairy, located on 86-acres in Waialua on Oahu. Owned and operated by the Bello family with daughter Emma, a culinary student graduate, the visionary for a goat dairy and making it real with help from Mom (Mary), Dad (Eric) and brother Austin. The Preservation: Six historic homes from the former Red Hill Navy housing neighborhood had been slated to be demolished but were instead saved and relocated to Sweet Land Farm. The homes are being re-purposed for employee housing and accessory farm uses in a creative preservation success story. The Tour:  Enjoy a farm tour with the Bello family sharing history and farm lore at the milking and cheese making stations, goat barn and teenage goat pen. Learn about the historic Red Hill housing that now resides on the farm—the history of the Red Hill neighborhood, the architecture and historic significance and story of the journey these homes took from a neighborhood of military housing to the farm and plans for their continued use into the future. Tour will include inside access to one of the homes. The Cheese Tasting: After the tour, enjoy cheese tasting on the patio with sampling of all farm made cheese products (see extras below for description). The Extras: The Farm Store will be open. Purchase Pohaku Tomme (aged semi-hard French-style); Feta (Greek style brined curd white cheese); spreadable Chevre (five flavors) & Goat Milk Caramel Sauce for friends and family before heading back to town. Guests are invited [...]

Workshop Presentations Click the thumbnails below to download PDF versions of each presentation. Class 1: Preservation & Sustainability Class 2: Water Class 3: Energy Class 4: Windows Class 5: Landscape Workshop Videos Preservation & Sustainability Assessing Historic Buildings Historic Home Case Study Standard Treatment of Historic Buildings Water (Part 1) Water (Part 2) Energy (Part 1) Energy (Part 2) How to Preserve your Historic Windows (Part 1) How to Preserve your Historic Windows (Part 2) Sustainable and Culturally Sensitive Landscapes Landscape (Permaculture Design) Landscape (Native Plants) All videos courtesy of Tim Huynh Photography Workshop Program Monday, April 9, 2018  Class 1: PRESERVATION & SUSTAINABILITY: What makes your historic home unique & sustainable measures to green it Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, Kiersten Faulkner, AICP, Executive Director Historic Hawai‘i Foundation,  Andrea Nandoskar, Education Program Manager Historic Homeowners, Pat & Edward Chung Become familiar with architectural elements and rehabilitation standards for the treatment of historic properties. Receive an overview of green measures to conserve resources and reduce carbon footprints noting benefits to homeowners and larger community.  Historic homeowners will share examples of green initiatives they’ve incorporated on their property. Monday, April 23, 2018 Class 2: WATER: Water conservation, stormwater management and on-site [...]

Underwater Cultural Heritage subject of Public Talk at Waikīkī Aquarium Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, in partnership with Waikīkī Aquarium, will share a first of its kind study about submerged cultural resources in the Hawaiian Islands. The talk will be presented by Dr. Hans K. Van Tilburg, Maritime Heritage Coordinator of NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, who recently completed, The Unseen Landscape: Inventory and Assessment of Submerged Cultural Resources in Hawai’i, highlighting shipwrecks and submerged aircraft sites in Hawai’i. Dr. Tilburg will share a lay overview of this exciting study and answer such questions as: What are the resources? How do they connect to our history? What threats do they face? What risks do they pose for ocean health? and How do we share their stories in a larger, place-based context? WHAT: Public presentation about underwater cultural resources in Hawai’i DATE:  Tuesday, March 13, 2018 TIME:  3:30 to 4:30 PM PLACE:  Waikīkī Aquarium classroom, 2777 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815 Free & open to the public. Registration required. Seating is limited!       It’s the first comprehensive assessment of Hawai‘i’s underwater cultural heritage and many agencies and partners contributed to this important 3-year project including Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory [HURL], the University of Hawaii Marine Option Program [UH MOP], BOEM’s Pacific OCS regional office, Honua Consulting Inc., NOAA’s Maritime Heritage Program, NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration, and the NOAA Diving Program.  

Identifying Underrepresented Stories & Related Cultural Sites is Goal of Forum A unique community forum to explore heritage sites, their under-told stories and perspectives on cultural identity and place will be held in Honolulu January 26-27, 2018. The two-day meeting will focus on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) heritage in the Hawaiian Islands. More Information FORUM WEBSITE “Identity and Place: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage in the Hawaiian Islands” is designed to gather perspectives and plans for identifying, preserving and sharing sites that are significant to the heritage of AANHPI communities in the Hawaiian Islands. Youth Video Project Films Pacific Buddhist Academy Student Projects Three students from Pacific Buddhist Academy were invited to present their final projects from Dr. Benjamin Bruch's Grade 12 course "Made in America/Made in Hawai'i" as part of the AANHPI Community Forum. Dr. Ben's Hawaiian studies course has been part of PBA's PeaceBridge curriculum since 2014, and provides seniors with an opportunity to reflect on their experiences living in Hawai'i and their own cultural identities before many of them leave to attend college on the mainland. After completing units on the architecture, history, languages, and literature of Hawai'i, students are asked to create a final project that explores some aspect of the concepts "Made in America," "Made in Hawai'i," or the links between them. Over the past four years, students have responded to this challenge with personal essays and short stories, poetry, graphic novels, paintings, drawings, photographs, films, and even culinary presentations. After an oli aloha and formal welcome from [...]

Announcing the 31st Annual Free Lunchtime Lecture Series featuring "Experts at the Cathedral" Winter 2018, February 1-March 8 The tradition continues! This year's theme: The Battle of Nu‘uanu: Contributions to the History of Hawai‘i The free weekly lunchtime lectures will be held on Thursdays from February 1– March 8, from 12-1 p.m. at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Von Holt Room, 229 Queen Emma Square, Honolulu This year's schedule: February 1: Jerry Walker, Community expert, scholar and practitioner, “Key Elements of the Battle of Nu‘uanu” February 8: Gordon Umi Kai, Pā Ku‘i a Lua, “Na Mea Kaua: Weapons and Battle Formations” February 15: Monika Frazier, Aloha Kuamo'o '‘Āina, “Wahi Pana as Ike Waihona: When the land holds memory” February 22: Professor William Chapman and Noelle Kahanu, University of Hawai‘i Graduate Certificate Program Historic Preservation,  “Preserving America’s Battlefields: Memorials or Interpretive sites?” March 1: Sam ‘Ohu Gon III, Nā Papa Kanaka o Puʻukoholā, “Lelekaʻanae: Commemorating the Battle of Nuʻuanu with Community for 20 years” March 8: Kim Birnie, Daughters of Hawai‘i, “A History of Remembrance: Venorating the battle and healing the wounds of Nu‘uanu” The annual series is sponsored by the Historic Preservation Program, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; the Friends of ‘Iolani Palace; and Historic Hawai‘i Foundation.                     Stop by on your lunch hour and feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. Click here for a map of the venue location. PARKING: Metered parking is available near Iolani Palace. Parking is also available at the Alii Place Parking Garage located at 1099 Alakea Street near the Hotel Street intersection ($3 for 2 hours) and in the St. Andrew's public parking lot ($12 for [...]