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Peter T. Young photo: Jennifer Barra 4/23/2020 - Peter T. Young is receiving an Individual Achievement Award for his commitment to preserving Hawai‘i ’s culture and history through both his public and private service. His contributions have included years as a school teacher, as head of a series of State of Hawai‘i government departments, in leadership roles with community organizations, and at present, as a consultant on land use planning and environmental reviews. For the past three years, Peter has served as the president of the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, which this year celebrates its 200th anniversary. He is overseeing and coordinating the Hawaiian Mission Bicentennial activities across the Islands and in New England. His work as a historian is available for everyone to enjoy and to learn more details of Hawai‘i’s history through his online publication, Ho’okuleana, where you will find links to his additional website, “Images of Old Hawai‘i”, and “The Voyage of the Thaddeus” journal.  The website consists of historic summaries of people, places, and events in Hawai‘i’s past.  Peter continuously adds entries to it as he uncovers new topics. “The Voyage of the Thaddeus” is the result of Peter’s years of studying the journals of the first Christian missionary company that arrived in Hawai‘i in 1820. Peter has been posting daily entries about the voyage beginning in October 22, 2019 and continuing to this day. He focuses on selected quotes written on the same day 200 years ago in the personal journals of missionaries and the captain and crew of the Thaddeus. Starting with the ship’s departure from New England on October 23, 1819, through its six months entirely at sea, to its arrival in Honolulu [...]