Onoe Kikunobu Expresses Gratitude For Nea Fellowship
Onoe Kikunobu-Sensei remembers the morning in September when she received the call from Hawai‘i Congressman Mark Takai, informing her that the National Endowment for the Arts had selected her as one of 11 Americans...
23rd Annual New Year’s ‘Ohana Festival
WHO/WHAT: The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i presents its annual ‘Ohana Festival to celebrate Hawai‘i’s cultural diversity and to ring in the New Year 2016 – the Year of the Monkey.
WHEN/WHERE: Sunday, Jan. 10,...
Architect Extraordinaire Frank Futoshi Arakawa
Marion M. Arakawa
Reprinted with Permission
Editor’s note: The following story on a little-known figure in Hawai‘i’s history, gifted architect and engineer Frank Futoshi Arakawa, is reprinted from “Aloha ‘Äina, Volume II: More Big Island Memories.”...
Kuakini’s “holiday Trees And Treasures” A Success
Kuakini Foundation celebrated the 115th anniversary of Kuakini Health Systems at its annual “Holiday Trees and Treasures” fundraising celebration on Nov. 20 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village’s Coral Ballroom. Some 530 people turned out...
“A Whole New Engineer”
Alan Suemori
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Editor’s note: The arrival of a new year always inspires new outlooks on life and the future of society. Some lose their luster after a few months — others...
Elvis Sighted On Maui!
Ilima Loomis
Reprinted with Permission
Allen Idemoto’s first glimpse of Elvis Presley was through a neighbor’s window.
Growing up in a small plantation house on Maui with so many brothers and sisters that he had to sleep...
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