In their new book, “Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide” (Abrams, 2019), woodworkers Alan Solomon and Klaas Armster close with an imagined recounting of one tree’s story from sprout to salvage. The tale begins in the 1500s, when longleaf pine covered a vast area from North Carolina down to ...
Florence Gapsis’s passenger seat is rarely empty. Several times a month, she hops in her car and picks up residents bound for destinations like Costco, the doctor’s office or the Veterans Affairs clinic. She patiently waits while her passengers complete their errands and then takes them ...
Nick Okamoto is passionate about calculus. In fact, Nick loves every branch of mathematics. And he wants your kids to feel the love, too. An enthusiastic educator like Nick can make that happen. He inspires his students and makes math fun. That’s right, FUN. His basic philosophy is — “You have to know — and teach — the why!” “If you are just taught to memorize list after list of facts, it can be overwhelming. You have to know the why in order to know how to figure things out. And the why helps you remember and build on what you’ve learned. And when you do that, math ...
Maui artists Gwen Arkin and Andy Behrle have been selected to create new artworks for the Honolulu Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition, “Artists of Hawai‘i 2020,” inspired by traditional methods that investigate burning issues in Hawaii. Their works will be on display for the exhibition at the museum from Sept. 12 to Jan. 17, 2021. The artists were chosen for the exhibition, which is held every three years, by co-curators Marlene Siu, exhibition manager at museum art school, and Taylour Chang, curator of film and performance, following an open-call submission ...
The Buddha Reads book club is starting a new book this month, with the first meeting to discuss it at the end of February. The book is “The Water of Kane” by Oswald A. Bushnell. It is a historical fiction novel about the construction of the immense irrigation project on the slopes of Haleakala. This soon proves to be the costliest venture ever attempted in the Kingdom of Hawaii. The “Big Ditch” — 6 feet wide, a yard deep and 17 miles long — has to be dug by hand, blasted and tunneled out of sheer rock, and shored up with massive pipes that span ravines. If not completed ...
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