The Many Teasures of Kawai Nui Marsh
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Del.icio.usKawai Nui Marsh’s co-curators were thinking positive on July 8, despite a year of devastating damage to Hawaii’s environment. That day the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club and Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi held their annual ho‘ike, Na Waiwai o Kawai Nui, celebrating stewardship at Kailua’s Ulupo heiau, site of an impressive restoration project. Several area halau performed, while historian Paul Brennan and archeologists Chris Fung and Martha Yent led tours to key sites from Maunawili to Na Pohaku o Hauwahine. Lomilomi, native weapons and Rick Barboza’s native plants were a big hit. Civic club president Minoo Elison estimates the crowd at 900, and the Hawaiian plate lunch sales boosted the club’s scholarship fund substantially.
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