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Luana Maitland Shares Her Hawaiian Culture

Luana Maitland
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger
I was born and raised in Hawaii, and am three-quarters native Hawaiian by ancestry. My heritage is important to me, and I’ve always wanted to work somewhere where I could incorporate my culture in my daily work. Read More
Patricia Wood: The Bird Wrasse Woman

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger
It was dusk when I pulled into Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai’s east shore and found Patricia Wood standing under a streetlamp in the middle of the marina parking lot. Read More
Wyland’s 100th Whaling Wall Celebrates Green Olympics

Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger

With exactly 100 monumental marine murals in 80 cities and 15 countries across the world to his credit, the artist known as Wyland can be considered a global citizen. And, yet, we in Hawaii consider him one of ours, as we regularly drive and walk past his eight life-size murals gracing the sides of, and in some cases, wrapping around multi-storied buildings across our islands. Even Wyland considers Hawaii his “first home,” as he puts it.
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Lottery Excerpt

Patricia Wood
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger

My name is Perry L. Crandall and I am not retarded. Gram always told me the L stood for Lucky. "Mister Perry Lucky Crandall quit your bellyaching " she would scold.
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Come. Join Donna Kahakui.

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger
When you ask Donna Kahakui where she comes from, she answers, the ocean. “I come from a family of fishermen. To me, the ocean is my best friend,” she says. “I am more coordinated in the ocean than I am on land.” Read More
Diversity in Islamic Art at Shangri La

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger
“Islamic art dates from the 8th century to present day and pretty much encompasses the countries from southern Spain all the way to India, so Islamic art is very diverse,” said Barbara Buchman, taking cover from the bright sun in the shade of an 80-year-old banyan tree. “If you take away anything from my tour, that’s it. That Islamic art is very diverse.” Read More
Lottery: A Book Review

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Oahu/Waikiki
Article Source: Outrigger
In Patricia Wood’s debut novel Lottery, her narrator is not what those in literary circles would call reliable. And in society, Perry would not even be considered likeable. Read More
In Memory of Heroes in Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Oahu
Article Source: Blog Post
When you live in Hawai'i, you don't forget December 7, the anniversary of the attack of Pearl Harbor 68 years ago. It's a day of remembrance. Today is another such day. The 25th anniversary of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. It only runs when the surf reaches heights of 20 feet at Waimea on O'ahu during the annual one-month holding period. In its 25-year history, the event has only run seven times. Today makes eight. Read More
New Year's Resolution

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Hawaii Island
Article Source: Blog Post
A couple weeks ago, a group of virtual writer friends started posting their goals for 2010. They could all be my own: Write more, publish more, stop procrastinating. But out of the dozens of New Year’s resolutions I read, one stood out. And ever since I read it, I have pondered it. Rolled it around in my mouth like my dog eats peanut M&Ms. Read More
Hawaii’s St. Damien

Kim Steutermann Rogers
Destination: Hawaii Island
Article Source: Blog Post

Pope Benedict XVI canonized Jozef De Veuster yesterday, Rosary Sunday, October 11, 2009. In Hawai'i, we know him as Father Damien. He arrived in Hawai’i on March 19, 1864 as Brother Damien. Two months later, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace ordained him a priest. In 1873, Father Damien asked to be assigned to a peninsula on the north shore of Moloka’i, known as Kalaupapa, where he could minister to the 816 Hawaiians who had been exiled there, because they suffered from Hansen’s Disease.

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