Celebrating Halloween in Lahaina would revive even the most jaded cynic’s faith in human creativity. The annual event in Maui’s picturesque seaside town draws thousands of revelers to promenade along Front Street. Some stroll through the balmy autumn evening in costumes as homemade and traditional as witches or cavemen. Others wear outfits that would pass…
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Eating My Words About Maui Dust
It turns out I was wrong. In a blog post I wrote last year after HC&S announced the closing of its Maui sugar plantation, I warned of increased dust from the abandoned fields. As it happens, I had moved to a place windward of the central valley fields a couple of years before this big…
Finding My Way in Paris
The great thing about travel abroad is that you’re always seeing something new and different. In the U. S., it seems to me, wherever you go there are the same old Walmarts, Starbucks and McDonald’s. Travel afar, and everyday life is filled with new and educational experiences, especially if you get out of the…
Sugarcane Days Wins Preservation Award
I am happy to announce that Sugarcane Days: Remembering Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company is winning an award from the Historic Hawai‘i Foundation. According to the foundation’s website, “The Preservation Honor Awards have been presented annually since 1975. The awards are Hawai‘i’s highest recognition of preservation, rehabilitation, restoration and interpretation of the state’s architectural,…
What Created Maui’s Famous “Crater”?
Welcome to the “crater” that is not really a crater. This giant valley atop Mount Haleakala has been called a “crater” since at least the first written mention of it in the early 1800s. In recent years, the National Park Service has emphasized the fact that the great depression at the summit is not a…
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