The broken line that cut off water supplies to much of Kihei yesterday might have been a wake-up call. Apparently that 18-inch line is one of two (the other is 36 inches) that supplies this whole coast, and I bet they are still the same lines originally installed in the late ’60s or early ’70s…
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Off Island: I Become a Tour-Bus Tourist
So there I was, dragging a heavy suitcase through rush-hour pedestrian traffic over a bumpy cobbled sidewalk. Somewhere up this busy London street was the station from which my train would be leaving in less than half an hour. Exactly where that station was, I had no idea, but my only choice was to keep…
Locals Know: Pa‘u Riders of Hawai‘i
Exuberant and horse crazy, Hawaiian women of the nineteenth century loved to ride at breakneck speed with their skirts flying behind them. What one writer called the “gay, winged dress” of these early horsewomen was the pa‘u, a distinctively Hawaiian riding costume now seen mostly in parades. The Pa‘u The pa‘u—a woman’s skirt or sarong—was…
Conch shells against a secret deal
When protesters blew conch shells on Ka`anapali Beach July 29 to demonstrate against a controversial trade deal being negotiated there, they hoped to break the Guinness World Record for the most conch shells blown at one time. Looks like they did that; estimates range as high as 400 people simultaneously blowing conch shells, and the…
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