Tag: Hawaii
Howie Mandel, My Great-Great-Great Grandfather & Hawaii’s Poi
I could almost see him: The elderly, blind man with the thick shock of white hair, sitting on a lauhala mat on the floor, a cloth tied around his forehead to catch the sweat, swinging a stone poi pounder rhythmically onto the cooked kalo on the wooden poi board in front of him.
Kahoolawe, 2
Your feet (and the rest of you) get very dirty with the island’s rich-colored red-brown dirt. They call it a Kaho‘olawe tan.
Kahoolawe, 1
We formed a line from the boat to the shore and passed all the plastic-bagged goods, water bottles and food supplies to shore, hand-to-hand. A huge sack of cabbages was passed through the ocean, and I wondered if it would taste salty when we ate it. We stepped onto Kaho‘olawe, and carried all the water and food up the well-marked stone trail to the well-established outdoor kitchen.
Voyaging Through Time & Space
It’s one of the coolest things in 21st-century Hawai‘i, in my book, and has such an amazing history.
‘Gathering Places’ Tour a Success!
East Hawai‘i, of course, has so much interesting history, and one of the fun things about our tours is that we can sneak people into places one doesn’t ordinarily get to see.
My Vog Article in Honolulu Magazine
I wrote about vog recently and the article is out in the current (August 2009) Honolulu magazine. Here’s how it starts: It comes on the Kona winds—the dreaded yellow-brown haze of vog that makes eyes burn and lungs protest. On the Big Island, of course, it has done far more …