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Hana Hou! Issue 27.3

Jun - Jul 2024
three people wearing hawaiian shirts and leis serenading with a ukelele

Connecting Flight

Olelo Hawaii Takes Flight

a person wearing full protective gear riding a motorcycle

Wheels of Fire

The Davis family admits they were terrified when they rolled up to Hilo Drag Strip for the first time.

a table with stacks of tiles with two people playing

Not Just Your Po Po's Game

For years Cassie Louie would drop her grandmother off at her weekly mahjong dates.

a person in all black clothing erasing art from a wall

Disappearing Act

In 2020, reeling from the news of the Australian wildfires and isolated from loved ones due to the pandemic, Jana Ireijo began questioning her purpose

a man in sunglasses and hat, standing beside a tallplant

King Corm

Hawaii Island farmer Clarence Medeiros is the proud papa of the world’s heaviest taro—at 49.97 pounds, it holds the Guinness World Record.

two people painting with watercolors

Pigments of the Imagination

If Michi Marsh, a competitive freediver and watercolor artist, hadn't broken her back, she might never have learned to make watercolors.

two people in a body of water covered in moss planting a water plant

A Walk through Time

Evan Mokuahi Hayes looks up at the tree, a towering pine on Iolani Palace's front lawn.

miles of trails beckon hikers in the less frequented Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

The Other Side of Volcanoes

Exploring the Kahuku Unit of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

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Recorded History

The Hawaii State Archives is digitizing the largest collection of Hawaiian music in the world

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Gliding to Glory

Hawaii's only synchronized skating team is in it to win itand they just might

the stars are sifted at Abe Fireworks in Nagaoka, Japan, to ensure they are of uniform size

The Artisans of Incandescence

Building beautiful explosions in Nagaoka, the fireworks capital of Japan

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Realm of Stone and Sea

Walking Molokai's wild west end

a person on a skateboard performing a trick in the air

The Trickster

Heimana Reynolds has carved a careerand an Olympic berthfrom the deck of a skateboard

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Nourishing the Roots

Indigenous cuisine is experiencing a rebirth in Hawaii and around the world

two astronauts on a dry planet

Interplanetary Culture

A plastic baggie of deathly smelling goo arrived as a care package for Kim Binsted, a University of Hawaii professor, in late 2019.