... that
hula master
George Naʻope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii?
... that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in
American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?
... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church(pictured) has survived earthquakes,
tsunamis,
lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of
Kīlauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that George Lycurgus, who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed
1895 counter-revolution?
... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?
October 2009
... that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in
Hilo, Hawaii, a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered
nēnē were raised?
... that to prevent extinction of the Mauna Kea silversword, scientists rappel over cliffs to hand-pollinate the approximately 41 remaining in the wild, on the rare occasion that one blossoms?
... that despite losing his right arm and having no formal
civil engineering education, Henry Perrine Baldwin(pictured) oversaw a pioneering
sugarcane irrigation system on the Hawaiian island of
Maui in 1876?
... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century
sugarcane mill in
Maui, Hawaii?