Working Together to Preserve a Historic Neighborhood
Historic Hawai‘i Foundation is pleased to recognize the Burbank Street neighborhood with a Programmatic Award as a community effort to nominate five homes to the Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places. This project is an incredible example of the legacy of preservation--how acting on common values, people build lasting [...]
Sharon Hayden Embraces Kuleana for “The Painted King”
6/2/2020: The statue of Kamehameha the Great stands tall in front of the Kohala Civic Center in Kapa‘au, not far from the birthplace of Hawaii’s greatest king. For over two decades, care and kuleana for this public sculpture, known as the Painted King, has fallen to Sharon Hayden, a 45-year [...]
Revitalizing a 1930s Building in Paia
The F. Garcia Building has served the Paia community as a commercial enterprise since its construction in 1934. Its classic façade style and small scale are typical of family-owned shops of the plantation era that distinguish the retail district of Paia. The F. Garcia Building before rehabilitation. Originally [...]
ALU KA PULE I HAKALAU: Standing Together for Justice and Equity
A STATEMENT FROM HISTORIC HAWAI‘I FOUNDATION ALU KA PULE I HAKALAU: Standing Together for Justice and Equity 6/3/2020: Since last week we are seeing a massive collective response to systemic racism, with both peaceful protests and destructive acts in cities across the country. We are profoundly disturbed by the horrific [...]
Wounded Veterans Protecting the Past
By Johanna Fuller, Resource Specialist, Pacific Historic Parks A monumental 3-year-pilot program began in March 2018 when 4 divers were brought to Hawaii for the Pearl Harbor Wounded Veterans in the Park (WVIP) Program with injuries ranging from paraplegia to severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The WVIP program is a nationwide [...]
Historian Nanette Napoleon to be Lauded with Individual Achievement Award
Since the mid-1980s, Nanette Napoleon has led an effort to preserve Hawai‘i’s historic burial grounds. Her family's appreciation of their native Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Tahitian, and European roots drew her to the last vestiges of people of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the stories their final resting places [...]