2014 Historic Sites Calendar Features ‘Working Hands Of The Makaainana’
HONOLULU -- The Hawaii Heritage Center, in cooperation with the State Historic Preservation Division within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, has been producing an historic sites calendar since 1984. Their 2014 calendar, titled the “Working Hands of the Makaainana,” addresses the theme of Hawaiian technology and innovation. The [...]
New Head of Cultural Preservation in Hawaii Pledges Transparency
Honolulu Civil Beat, 1/7/2014 By Sophie Cocke Alan Downer sat in his office at the State Historic Preservation Division last month looking perplexed. He had been on the job as the new administrator of SHPD for less than two weeks and a state legislator had already filed a formal public [...]
Downtown Hilo’s makeover begins
By COLIN M. STEWART Tribune-Herald staff writer Hawaii Tribune Herald. January 7, 2014: With a flourish of a brush stroke, Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi set in motion Monday a project that promises to put a new face on downtown Hilo businesses. It seemed fitting, then, that he chose when [...]
Kailua Historical Society event to feature panel of local long time residents providing insight on coping with change in Kailua & Lanikai
Kailua’s Rock: December, 2013 DECEMBER 10, 2013 • 7:00 – 9:00 pm LANIKAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The program is open to the public. Among the many boulders of Kailua’s ahupua?a, the best known and most celebrated is “Lanikai Rock.” Visible to the earliest Hawaiian seafarers, this promontory–called Ala¯la, stood like a [...]