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Welcome to The Jewel of South Maui

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“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five.

I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.”

–Mark Twain

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CONTENTS

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Maui Film Festival at Wailea

The Magic Hour That Lasts Five Days

BY RICK CHATENEVER

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Hala-lujah

A Humble Tree Worthy of Praise

BY TERI FREITAS GORMAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY RACHEL OLSSON

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Net Fantasy

Wailea Fantasy Tennis Camp Lives Up to its Name

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RACHEL OLSSON

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The Gold Standard of Golf

With 54 Magnificent Golf Holes, Wailea is Unmatched

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Maui’s Edward Bailey

Renaissance Man of the Sandwich Islands

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Hawai‘i Blue

On Maui, Blue Surrounds Us in Fun and Unexpected Ways

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Reclaiming a Sacred Hawaiian Place

An Intimate Look at Kaho‘olawe

CONTENTS

D E PA RT M E N T S 6 Welcome Letter from Bud Pikrone 8 Contributors 12 Lei of the Land GETTING AROUND WAILEA

14 Wailea’s Footprint

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A WORLD-CLASS COASTAL WALK

22 Wailea Hall of Fame CHECK OUT WHERE YOUR FAVORITE CELEBS ARE SPOTTED

62 Life, Wailea Style HIGHLIGHTS OF RESORT LIVING

66 Inspiration ADVENTURES IN CHOCOLATE

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70 Resorts, Amenities, and More LIVING THE GOOD LIFE AT WAILEA

74 Wailea Dining Guide FARE TO REMEMBER

78 Maui Grown LOCAL FARMERS, FRESH FOODS

88 The Pleasures of Shopping and Dining

GREAT FINDS AT THE SHOPS AT WAILEA

92 Shops & Galleries A GUIDE TO RETAIL AND THE ARTS

ON THE COVER

Photographer Rachel Olsson discovers the many shades of blue at Wailea Resort.

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ALOHA

MAGAZINE

Spring is in the air! The days are

getting longer, which means more time at the beach and in the ocean, enjoying Wailea’s magnificent shoreline playground.

But don’t think the fun ends when the sun goes down.

Evenings in Wailea shine with “star” light at the 14th Maui Film Festival at Wailea (June 12-16). In July, we celebrate the all-important coconut at the Niu Festival (July 26-27), where you will be regaled with cultural tales of ancient ocean travelers and how Wailea, the “waters of Lea,” became an important sanctuary for these mariners.

And these are but two of the exciting resort activities our guests can enjoy this spring and summer. There’s always something happening in Wailea!

It’s easy to fulfill all the wonderful visions you had about Hawai‘i at Wailea. Capture the stunning sunrise over Haleakalā while sipping coffee on a länai; or take in a breathtaking sunset while strolling on the beach walk. Every day at Wailea is truly a dream come true.

Here, you can enjoy the warm and gracious hospitality of Hawai‘i while experiencing the rich traditions of the past such as ‘ukulele, hula, surfing, and paddleboarding, all of which still thrive today.

This magazine has been created to take you on a journey through Wailea’s cultural past and into today’s special resort lifestyle. We hope you make it a part of your memories at home and that it brings you back soon.

Mahalo nui loa for sharing your time with us here in Wailea.

Kipa hou mai!

(Come visit again!)

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CONTRIBUTORS

Rachel Olsson Rick Chatenever Maui Film Festival at Wailea, p. 16 Award-winning journalist Rick Chatenever was there at the birth of the Maui Film Festival 14 years ago. He has covered it ever since, interviewing stars, filing on-deadline reports, and moderating filmmakers panels. He lives in Kula, Maui, with his wife, Karen. Since retiring as entertainment editor of The Maui News, he finds time for daily swims, teaching at UH Maui College, freelancing, and writing documentary film scripts.

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Dana Edmunds

Maui’s Edward Bailey, p. 40 Jill is an award-winning freelance writer who specializes in Maui history. She lives in Wailuku, not far from the Bailey House Museum, and loves the Bailey paintings that show how the town looked more than a century ago. Her most recent book is Haleakalā: A History of the Maui Mountain.

Learn more about her work at www.mauiislandpress.com.

Net Fantasy, p. 32 Dana began his career on Maui as a surf photographer.

After graduating from Art Center in Pasadena, he returned to the Islands and opened a photo studio in Honolulu. As a Hawai‘i-based commercial photographer, Dana shoots for various editorial, advertising, and action-sports clients here in Hawai‘i and throughout the world. He describes himself as “happily married, with two kids, a dog, and a chicken.”

Teri Freitas Gorman Hala-Lujah, A Humble Tree Worthy of Praise, p. 26 Teri Freitas Gorman is a Maui girl who has written for numerous Hawai‘i publications. Her multi-ethnic heritage and a lifelong love of travel prompted her passion for intercultural communications and cultural tourism.

One day she hopes to have a pāpale lau hala (hand-plaited hala leaf hat) adorned with a kolohala lei hulu (pheasant feather lei) of her own.

Yvonne Biegel Wailea Hall of Fame, p. 22 Yvonne has lived the island life on Maui for nearly 20 years as a publicist for Hawai‘i lifestyle and travel clients, writing for local publications, and raising three young sons in the surf. She enjoys attending Wailea events and dining in the resort’s many fabulous restaurants near her home.

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Hala-Lujah, A Humble Tree Worthy of Praise, p. 26; Hawai‘i Blue, p. 46 Rachel found her love of aloha working on Hawai‘i Island coffee farms while on hiatus from Art Center in Pasadena. She recently bought property on the north shore of Maui and loves it. She

specializes in shooting advertising and editorial fashion and food imagery for clients such as Nordstrom and Food & Wine, and also shoots weddings and portraiture. When she isn’t working her vision with a camera, she can be found in her garden or on her paddleboard or Moto Guzzi, enjoying all the beauty Maui has to offer. See her work at www.rachelolsson.com.

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WAILEA is nestled on the leeward side of South Maui. Only 30 minutes from the Kahului Airport, just south of the town of Kīhei, Wailea is easily accessible by automobile. The main entrances to Wailea’s luxurious beachfront resorts are located along lovely Wailea Alanui. The Shops at Wailea, located just north of Grand Wailea, features upscale apparel, jewelry, fine art, cuisine, and more. Nearby are Wailea’s world-class golf and tennis facilities — the Wailea Golf Club, featuring the Old Blue and Gold and Emerald golf courses, and the Wailea Tennis Club. All of Wailea’s resorts, along with golf, tennis, dining, and shopping, are within a few minutes’ drive of your resort or condominium.

The 1.5-mile Coastal Walk, which runs between the resorts and the beach, provides a magnificent view of the South Maui coastline and affords easy access to the beachfront resorts.

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Wailea’s Footprint ON THE COASTAL WALK, ALL YOUR SENSES COME ALIVE THERE ARE MANY WAYS to experience the spirit of a place, and in Wailea, it’s the Wailea Coastal Walk. This is where you’ll feel the sun, hear the sounds of laughter from the beach, and know that all is well with the world. With the crescent of Molokini crater in the foreground, mysterious Kaho‘olawe behind it, and the island of Lāna‘i in the distance, you will absorb the full measure of beauty along the South Maui coastline. Stretching from Keawakapu Beach to The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui, the 1.5-mile Coastal Walk offers easy access to many aspects of Wailea resort and is a great aerobic workout at the same time.

The Coastal Walk offers a rich introduction to local history, flora, and fauna. At the Wailea Point Historical Interpretive Site, you’ll find an excellent introduction to

the more than 60 indigenous plants found in the Native Hawaiian Garden. These hardy plants include the ‘a‘ali‘i, which provides wood for houses, and the ‘ilima, used in lei-making. A partially restored home site and plaque recount the story of the Native Hawaiians and Europeans who lived in the area between the late 1300s and early twentieth century.

During the summer months, from May through October, the Coastal Walk provides the ideal location to watch the sun set into the Pacific Ocean. Framed by the islands of Kaho‘olawe and Lāna‘i, the sun melts into the tranquil waters...and, if you watch closely, you may just catch a glimpse of the elusive “green flash.”

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As the sun sets in shades of orange over the Pacific, the screen lights up at the Celestial Cinema, and another Maui Film Festival is underway.

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The Magic Hour That Lasts Five Days

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golf cart! The clouds moved out and the stars appeared above us. It just got you in a frame of mind that all things are possible.”

Along with the films, the star tributes, and filmmaker panels, the five-day festival (returning June 12-16, 2013) is about having a good time, Wailea-style. Aloha wear is the dress code at culinary feasts and star-studded parties that take place throughout the resort.

At press time, plans were underway for the return of the Seaside Cinema this year. Formerly known as the Sand Dance Theater, moviegoers watch eclectic films on Wailea Beach at night; by day, the projection tent turns into the Seaside Cinema Lounge, a popular gathering place to talk story with visiting film artists.

Studio hits, indie favorites, shorts, and documentaries are part of the mix. Surfing odysseys and music concerts are staples in what has been described as “a jewel box festival,” as though its assortment of films were a collection of sparkling gems.

Besides picking the movies, Rivers “reinvents” the festival each year. On tap this June is the “Cinema-centric Sand Sculpture Contest” on Wailea Beach; an “evolved” Starry

Dennis Quaid (far left) is one of many Hollywood luminaries who have been honored at the Festival.

The Seaside Cinema is slated to return in 2013.

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When Robert Trent Jones Jr. created Wailea’s world-class Gold and Emerald golf courses, he didn’t realize he was also laying the foundation for the most sublime open-air movie theater on the planet.

Its commanding 50-foot-wide screen is dwarfed by Maui’s majestic volcano, Haleakalā, behind it. In the other direction, Wailea’s hillsides roll seductively down to the beach. Its gentle, natural amphitheater slowly fills with thousands of blankets, beach chairs, and bodies, forming an impromptu jigsaw puzzle on the grass.

The Dolby Sound System is crisp and clear as night descends.

And then the stars come out.

Fourteen years ago, Maui Film Festival creator and director Barry Rivers connected the dots between the glimmering stars in the sky and the human beings also known as “stars,” whose faces would fill that big screen. He envisioned a festival with a resident astronomer, along with A-list filmmakers to honor each year.

“This festival is really about creativity,” said actress Virginia Madsen, recipient of its Navigator Award in 2008. “It was so cool to watch the movie last night...in a

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n a movie set it’s called “magic hour.” Bright afternoon sunshine dissolves into swirls of pastel twilight before fading into darkness. It’s a soft, diffused light known to Hollywood cinematographers as well as to audiences at the Celestial Cinema, the outdoor showpiece of the Maui Film Festival at Wailea.

Virginia Madsen (left) received the Maui Film Festival's Navigator Award in 2008. Taste of Wailea is always one of the most popular Festival events.

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Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, and Woody Harrelson. The list is long on Oscar winners and nominees, including Geena Davis, Tim Burton, William Hurt, and Dennis Quaid. Pierce Brosnan (who has a home on Kaua‘i) was recognized for his environmental activism along with his filmography.

Lately, the luminaries have gotten younger, their careers still on the rise.

Festival appearances by Andrew Garfield in 2011, and Elizabeth Banks in 2012, coincided with their blockbusters The Amazing Spider-Man and The Hunger Games. Claire Danes, honored in 2007, and Zooey Deschanel in 2009, would become stars of game-changing TV series that are still huge hits. Olivia Wilde used her appearance two years ago to show a documentary she had co-produced in hurricane-ravaged Haiti.

From its inception, the festival has been on the cutting edge of technology. It signed on early for solar power for some of its energy needs. “We’re always looking for new ways for new tomorrows,” says Rivers. But he also points to the festival’s unique ability to harken back to forces ancient and primal, as it forges thousands of strangers each night into communities of shared emotions under the stars. “It’s about the story, the heartbeat,” he says. “It’s the telling of stories that take people to deeper and higher places.”

Getting to those deeper and higher places is so much easier at Wailea Resort, where “magic hour” lasts forever.

For the latest news and more information about this year’s honorees, passes, tickets, and schedule, visit www.mauifilmfestival.com.

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Night MoonDance; and maybe the revival of the Father’s Day Concert & Picnic.

Chocolate aficionados will be happy to learn the Four Seasons’ Taste of Chocolate will return. And gastronomes are already salivating over Saturday’s Taste of Wailea, where the island’s top chefs serve their signature dishes from al fresco booths at twilight on the hill above the Celestial Cinema.

“I have watched it grow from a small, local work of passion to a film festival of worldwide significance,” sums up Maui entertainment producer and restaurateur Shep Gordon.

Not bad for what Rivers laughingly calls “the most remote film festival on earth, outside of the Arctic.”

He and his wife, Stella, launched Maui Film Festival 14 years ago as a series of weekly screenings at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s (MACC) Castle Theater, dedicated to “compassionate storytelling and life-affirming filmmaking.”

Screenings at the MACC are still part of the June schedule, but it’s the unique character of the properties of the Wailea Resort Association that have imprinted the festival’s personality as a unique marriage of Hollywood glitz, surfer fearlessness, beach culture, and laid-back Maui hospitality, all tied together with a visionary imagination that Rivers likens to alchemy.

The honorees appear to step off the Celestial Cinema screen, from reel to real life.

In our celebrity-centric society, Rivers prefers the term “luminaries, who give off as much light as their own heat. They bring their own sense of what’s important.”

Past award recipients have included iconic stars and part-time island residents

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“I have watched it grow from a small, local work of passion to a film festival of worldwide significance,” sums up Maui entertainment producer and restaurateur Shep Gordon.

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Wailea Hall of Fame Visiting or living in Wailea Resort has its perks. With

its sunny, warm weather and even warmer hospitality, Hawai‘i’s top resort is a playground for the fit and fabulous. Throughout the year, celebrities from Jennifer Aniston and Britney Spears to Adam Sandler are seen gracing the beaches, pools, golf courses, and tennis courts, and mingling with locals at Wailea restaurants and events. Just like any visitor, they can go unseen, tucked under beach cabanas and pool umbrellas, often enjoying the sweet life with their own families.

Celebrity Athletes du Jour Don’t be surprised if you swim up to celebrity athlete and Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps at the Grand Wailea pool when he is in house. He’s also caught the golf bug and is known to play a few rounds at the Wailea Golf Club’s Gold Course, where PGA Tour pro Rickie Fowler took to the Wailea greens with surfer Ian Walsh for a recent Red Bull video shoot. Ian returned the favor with a surf lesson for Rickie on Maui’s iconic north shore.

The annual Wailea Fantasy Camp at the Wailea Tennis Club (Nov. 20-24) has featured such renowned instructors and pros as former U.S. Davis Cup Captain Tom Gullikson, two-time U.S. Open Champion Tracy Austin, and former world No. 1-ranked player Lindsay Davenport.

When celebrities want to take a fitness lesson away from the limelight, they opt for Four Seasons Resort Maui’s yoga retreat, where Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) and Perrey Reeves (Entourage) receive instruction from yogi Kathryn Budig. Some of Major League Baseball’s best enjoy Four Seasons Resort during the off season, too. Cole Hamels, starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, enjoys the Wailea charm. And Ryan Howard, Phillies' first baseman, was married in Wailea last year.

Stand up paddling is the latest craze for ocean lovers, and Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis received a lesson from big wave surfing great Laird Hamilton at Wailea Beach, where guests can rent boards and jump into the action.

Impromptu Musical Moments Who could miss Steven Tyler hanging out at The Shops at Wailea in between appearances with his art at Célébrité’s Gallery? He was even

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spotted at The Fairmont Kea Lani-sponsored TEDxMaui event at Maui Arts & Cultural Center, sitting in the audience and enjoying the inspired TEDx presenters speak on technology, entertainment, and design.

Earlier this year, Steven jumped on stage at Mulligans on the Blue’s Willie K Blues Fest and sang his legendary hits “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way,” with Hawai‘i’s own virtuoso Uncle Willie K. The stage got even more crowded when special guest Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac played a few sets and Angela Strehli, the Queen of Texas Blues, belted out songs from the Lone Star State.

Celebrity Chefs Open in Wailea Wailea Resort is a hotbed for celebrity chefs. Four of the original Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine chefs — Bev Gannon, Alan Wong, Peter Merriman, and Mark Ellman — have all opened successful eateries here. Spago’s Wolfgang Puck has wowed for more than a decade at Four Seasons Resort Maui, and it’s been confirmed by Andaz Maui at Wailea that Food Network’s Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto will open the doors to his newest restaurant when the hotel debuts later this year.

Chef Bev Gannon and her concert producer husband, Joe Gannon, have entertainment backgrounds themselves, so it’s no wonder that the eponymously named Gannon’s restaurant attracts Hollywood luminaries Clint Eastwood, Oprah Winfrey, Owen Wilson, George Lopez, and Chris Noth.

Chef Peter Merriman’s Monkeypod Kitchen in Wailea Gateway attracts hipsters such as billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who was seen Facebooking in his corner booth while enjoying the meal. Chef Mark Ellman welcomes his personal friends Alice Cooper, Clint Eastwood, and Shep Gordon to Mala Ocean Tavern at Marriott Wailea Beach Resort & Spa when they are in town.

Hollywood’s “It” Crowd The celebrity chefs aren’t the only stars that find Wailea irresistible.

Many Hollywood celebs can be seen frequenting the resort, enjoying the golden beaches and lavish sunshine.

NBC’s Parenthood recently wrapped their season with an irresistible closer showing Kristina Braverman (Monica Potter) and Adam Braverman (Peter Krause) treating themselves to the trademark Wailea Beach sand and surf, plus loads of signature pampering.

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Hala-lujah A Humble Tree Worthy of Praise

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RE THOSE PINEAPPLE TREES?” the New York honeymooners ask. Having stopped off the zigzag road to Hāna, they search Kahanu Garden for the perfect Kodak moment. Bewildered by what appears to be a grove of pineapple trees, they seek my assurance it is indeed Hawai‘i’s most iconic fruit.

“Uh, no...those are hala trees,” I say. “The fruit looks similar, but pineapple grows on the ground, not in trees.”

Visibly disappointed, they shrug and resume their search for a more memorable backdrop. Little do they know the indigenous hala plant preceded the alien pineapple’s arrival to Hawai‘i by millions of years.

A fossilized fruit discovered in a 500,000-year-old Kaua‘i lava flow proves that hala is native to Hawai‘i, yet migrating Polynesians so highly prized the tree they sailed with its seeds in their canoes. Found throughout Wailea Resort, hala is one of the most useful trees in Polynesia, second only to coconut palms. It provides material for shelter, containers, flooring, bedding, medicine, food, art supplies, and even perfume. And the hardy tree asks for very little in return; it grows quickly, is drought resistant, and can even drink brackish or salty water.

Its stout trunk is supported by a tangle of prop roots similar to mangrove trees. Along its branches, its elongated leaves spiral in a recurring corkscrew pattern, the inspiration for its English name, “screw pine.”

Female hala bear tight clusters of keys, also called drupes or fruitlets, of various shapes and sizes resembling pineapple. Male hala flaunt prominent creamy white spikes called hīnano cloaked in aromatic straw-colored pollen.

Native Hawaiians identify five types of hala, distinguished by the fruit’s color and size: hala pia with tiny creamcolored fruit; hala melemele, with small yellow fruit; hala ‘īkoi, a two-toned lemon-colored fruit edged in bright orange; hala lihilihi ‘ula, a bright red fruit with a yellow midsection; and hala ‘ula, with dazzling red-orange fruit.

Though both fruit and flower are edible, in old Hawai‘i hala was eaten only as a last recourse during times of famine.

The tree’s most useful offering is its long, blade-like leaves called lauhala, an all-purpose material with more functions than duct tape. Prior to European contact, Hawaiians used lauhala for thatching or to weave durable ground mats, pillows, bedding, baskets, and canoe sails. After missionaries arrived, its use extended to fashion, as evidenced by the ornate woven fans, headbands, hats, bracelets, and hair adornments that debuted during the early 1800s.

Making any lauhala creation is both tedious and labor intensive. Simply gathering the leaves is a daunting task because cruel, tiny thorns line each leaf edge. Prime hala grow in moist areas near the shore. The sun and salt air cure the leaves rendering them more durable and pliable. The choicest brown leaves are recently fallen or dried while still attached to the tree.

Cleaning lauhala is similarly laborious. Cloaked in red dirt and crawling with lizards, centipedes, spiders, and insects, each leaf must be rinsed, cut, and trimmed of its thorns. Next, the denuded leaves are softened with water and flattened by rolling them around one’s hand in a process called po‘ala (to coil). The coils are combined to make a fat circular roll called kūka‘a, containing 50 to 100 connected leaves.

After resting for a month, the cured lauhala is cut into small strips called koana ranging from one-eighth to three-quarters of an inch depending upon delicacy of weave. Because the leaves’ texture, thickness, color, and pliability differ, koana are sorted and bundled together by similarity.

The lauhala practitioner’s artistry emerges during weaving (technically plaiting because no loom is used). Lifting alternating vertical strips while simultaneously setting a horizontal strip in place sounds much easier than it is. In old Hawai‘i, students silently learned by observing their teachers and imitating their actions. Mastery of lauhala plaiting requires decades of practice. A master artisan’s creation is said to be imbued with his or her mana (spiritual essence) and can be identified by unique patterns as distinctive as fingerprints.

Hala is one of the most useful trees in Polynesia.

It provides material for shelter, containers, flooring, bedding, medicine, food, art supplies, and even perfume.

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“The hala lei is a Hawaiian’s last lei. We place it in the coffin to celebrate the greatest passage of all, the transition to the glorious life after death.”

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Hawaiians used hala leaves—lauhala—for thatching or to weave durable ground mats, pillows, bedding, baskets, and canoe sails. (Opposite) A hala lei atop a lauhala box.

Lauhala plaiting rose to new heights of mastery in the hands of Hawaiians. Today, handcrafted papale lauhala (hala hats) from Hawai‘i are highly prized by collectors around the world. Depending upon design, a single hat can cost anywhere from $200 to $5,000.

Hala also provides something that money can’t buy: health and well-being.

Kahu Kapi‘ioho‘okalani Lyons Naone, a Maui kahuna la‘au lapa‘au (Hawaiian plant practitioner), grew up in Kīpahulu, just south of Hāna, famed for its lush hala groves.

Now a kupuna (elder), Kahu recalls helping his grandmother gather lauhala from a sacred grove near Wai‘anapanapa. When he was just two, she chose him to inherit her knowledge of Hawaiian plant medicine.

“Hala can treat a variety of ailments,” he tells me. “The root, called ule or uleule, is used to cure asthma, colds, any kind of chest congestion. We mash the root tips and combine the paste with nuhōlani (eucalyptus), wāpine (lemon grass), and maile hohono (whiteweed or floss flower) to make a steam bath. Inhaling the steam clears the lungs and purifies the body through the skin. We also mix pounded ule with kō (sugar cane) and other ingredients to make a tonic to strengthen new mothers after childbirth. For children, hala fruit is used to treat diseases like ‘ea (thrush) and pa‘ao‘ao (physical weakness).”

The metaphorical Hawaiian language often assigns multiple meanings to words and hala is no exception. It can also mean sin, offense, error, and vice; or it can describe a completion, passing, and transition. Because kahuna la‘au lapa‘au treat both physical and spiritual disorders, Kahu has uses to help reluctant spirits as well.

“Hawaiians believe that after death, the spirit of the deceased stays nearby for a year,” he says.

“On the death anniversary there is a ceremony that liberates their spirit to pō (the afterlife). But sometimes the spirit refuses to leave. A lei made of hala fruit is hung in the place where the spirit lingers to communicate it is time to go to the afterlife. This lei is a symbol of passage, not death, but because of this ritual, people can misunderstand the lei’s meaning.”

Hawaiians also prize hala as a desired love charm like the red hala fruit lei described in the Hawaiian proverb, “A pala ka hala, ‘ula ka ‘a‘i” (When the hala is ripe, necks are red). Or less poetically, it’s a good time for lovemaking. Not so coincidentally, Polynesians have long used the pollen of the male tree as a potent aphrodisiac. Many an unsuspecting wahine of old discovered a suitor had sprinkled fragrant hīnano on her sleeping mat.

Kupuna Uncle Roy Benham is Hawai‘i’s most eminent maker of the uncommonly beautiful hala lei. The 89-year-old retired educator was born and raised in the O‘ahu plantation town of Kahuku, steeped in Hawaiian culture. As a young man, he learned to make the sophisticated “Hāna cut” lei fashioned from carved hala fruit.

Like lauhala plaiting, hala lei-making is an intricate process. “For the Hāna cut lei, I select the most brilliant yellow, orange, or red fruit and separate it into individual keys,” Uncle Roy explains.

“I carefully slice each ridge of the pod so it looks like a fiery little blossom. I figure out where the seed ends and then I trim the pod and string the lei.”

Uncle Roy’s lei are mostly reserved for significant occasions such as graduations, weddings, career promotions, or to adorn a victorious candidate on election night. He also affirms Kahu’s assertion that hala lei signify rites of passage. “The hala lei is a Hawaiian’s last lei,” he says. “We place it in the coffin to celebrate the greatest passage of all, the transition to the glorious life after death.”

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Fantasy Wailea Fantasy Camp Lives Up to its Name

You live in New England, Canada, or someplace cold. It’s early November when the first chill of winter arrives on a blast of Arctic air. The chill reminds you that fall is quickly passing, and that winter will soon bring icy roads, frosty windshields, and a persistent, numbing cold.

At night, you dream about a place where there is no winter. In this dream, you awake in an elegant Maui resort overlooking the Pacific. You are there to play tennis, and each day you and other like-minded zealots take to the courts, where you are tended to and fussed over by legends of the game.

When you are not playing tennis, you hang out at a serene pool, complete with an underwater music system, swim-up bars, and poolside massages. In the evenings, there are cocktail parties, good conversation, and sumptuous meals.

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Todd Nicholson of the Players Edge Tennis Association once had such a dream — and was smart enough to act on it. Nicholson lives in Connecticut and, in 2007, he teamed up with former U.S. Davis Cup Captain Tom Gullikson and Cathy Nicoloff, director of tennis at Wailea Tennis Club, to launch the Wailea Fantasy Camp. This fall (Nov. 20-24), the Camp enters its seventh year, the last six in partnership with the Four Seasons Resort Maui.

Since its inception, the camp has consistently attracted top coaching talent.

The inaugural event, in 2007, featured former World No.1 singles champion Mats Wilander and former World No. 1 doubles player Jonathan Stark; other years have seen Tracy Austin and Jose Higueras.

This year, Lindsay Davenport, three-time Grand Slam singles champion and former World No. 1, returns to headline a team that also includes Gullikson, former ATP pro Taylor Dent, and former No. 1-ranked doubles player Corina Morariu. It’s the strongest field to date, with two more surprise coaches yet to be announced.

“The Wailea Fantasy Camp is unlike any other tennis camp in the U.S.,” says Nicholson. “There’s really no better place to hold this kind of event. It’s a phenomenal resort atmosphere where participants get to spend hands-on, quality time with the greats of tennis. These are people you don’t normally have access to, and here you not only get to learn from them, but play with them.”

Nicholson is no stranger to fantasy tennis camps. He and Gullikson began organizing them in the northeastern United States back in 2002, and while they were successful, they always felt the experience wasn’t quite complete.

“What we really wanted was to bring one into a market that was truly paradise — a place that was a fantasy both on and off the court,” says Nicholson.

“After doing some research, it became obvious that place was Maui.”

Further research showed Nicholson that the Wailea Tennis Club was the right place to hold the camp, and that the right partner was its director, Nicoloff, a driving force in Hawai‘i tennis, with several statewide titles on her resume.

The Wailea Fantasy Camp brings pros and avid amateurs together under the warm Maui sun. (Opposite) Lindsay Davenport high-fives a Camp participant...it could be you!

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“The Wailea Fantasy Camp is unlike any other tennis camp,” says Todd Nicholson.

“There’s really no better place to hold this kind of event. It’s a phenomenal resort atmosphere where participants get to spend quality time with the greats of tennis.”

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“What we really wanted was a market that was truly paradise—a place that was a fantasy both on and off the court,” says Nicholson. “After doing some research, it became obvious that place was Maui.”

When the Four Seasons Resort Maui signed on as the host hotel in 2008, the package was complete. Not only did they have a fabulous destination, a great hotel, and a first-class tennis facility, they also had Gullikson, whose personal relationships with the players secured the top-notch, professional coaching talent.

Held over five days, the Wailea Fantasy Camp begins with a lavish welcoming reception on Wednesday evening. The following morning at 8:30, and every morning thereafter, Nicoloff offers a warm-up session for the group’s hard-core workout buffs — a half-hour of stretches and movement choreographed to music. “The actual camp begins at 9 a.m.,” she says. “It’s four days of intense instruction, drills, video analysis and play geared for players ranging in skill from 3.0 to 5.0 NTRP.” The players are divided into groups according to skill level and then dispersed onto the club’s 11 courts. The first two days are devoted to instruction and fundamentals: backhand, forehand, serve, volley. “Participants work on different aspects of their game with different coaches, but they also get to play with them,” says Nicholson. “Part of the fantasy is trying to return a 140-mile-an-hour serve.”

Video analysis is a new component of the camp and was added to improve the player experience. “The participants get a big kick out of it,” says Gullikson.

“To see the flaws in your game up on the screen, there’s really nothing like it.

The camera doesn’t lie.”

The social aspect of the camp is as important as the tennis. On Friday evening, everyone gets together informally for cocktails and dinner, including the coaches. On Saturday, the pros square off in exhibition matches, followed by an awards ceremony for the players. By Sunday afternoon, when the event concludes, players and coaches have all become friends.

“The Wailea Fantasy Camp is the most intimate setting you can find to interact with elite tennis professionals,” says Nicoloff. “Where else can you walk onto the court with a Lindsay Davenport and have her not only instruct you, but play with you and give you video analysis? As a director of tennis, I’m thrilled to be able to offer this.”

And come early November, when much of North America is staring winter in its chilly face, tennis aficianados are thrilled, too.

Cathy Nicoloff (above, right), director of tennis at Wailea Tennis Club, not only instructs players at the Camp, but is a statewide champion in her own right.

(Opposite page) Former U.S. Davis Cup Captain Tom Gullikson is a Fantasy Camp mainstay, helping players of all abilities to improve their games.

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The

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WHETHER YOU ARE PASSIONATE about golf or a casual beginner, there is no better place than Maui’s Wailea Resort to experience the best that the game has to offer. At Wailea, every hole has an ocean view and the weather is as close to perfect as you will find.

Wailea is the only Hawai‘i resort with 54 holes of championship golf and a David Leadbetter Golf Academy. Add in a 12-acre practice facility and a nationally acclaimed golf shop, and it’s hardly surprising that Wailea has won more awards (90) than Tiger Woods has won PGA Tour events (75).

Wailea’s three layouts—Gold, Emerald, and Old Blue—are superbly conditioned. Old Blue is a former site of the LPGA Tour’s Women’s Kemper Open and the first thing ever built at Wailea in 1972. The Gold and Emerald courses are beautifully designed companion layouts built in 1994 by Robert Trent Jones II. The Emerald is a perennial favorite among resort guests and is consistently rated as one of the most “women-friendly” courses in America. It’s perfect for couples, but with four sets of tees, it can challenge even the best golfers.

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The ruggedly handsome and highly decorated Gold Course is Wailea’s most challenging test. From 2001 to 2007, it hosted the nationally televised Senior Skins Game, featuring Jack and Arnie and a host of other golfing legends. When Jack took home $340,000 in skins, in 2005, it was the biggest payday of his storied career.

This summer (July 31-Aug. 1), future legends of the game will descend on the Gold Course to compete in the Boys’ Junior America’s Cup (in 2012, Wailea hosted the Girls’ Junior America’s Cup), a team event that brings together the best junior golfers from the western United States, Canada and Mexico.

Brenda Rego And in December, Hawai‘i’s Michelle Wie will again sponsor the Hawai‘i State Junior Golf Association Tournament of Champions, a statewide, winners-only event that Wailea annually hosts, and which Wie herself won en route to becoming an LPGA Tour star.

“Wailea is proud to support junior golf,” says Jennifer McNally, director of sales and marketing at the Gold and Emerald courses. “We invite everyone to come out and enjoy any of these events that feature the future stars of the game.”

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sand dune, Edward Bailey looked down on Wailuku more than a century ago and captured in oils a pastoral vision of the little town and the cloud-capped West Maui Mountains.

Bailey’s Wailuku Plantation shows us a Maui that otherwise might have been forgotten, one of taro flourishing in the ‘Īao Valley, smoke rising from the Wailuku Sugar Company mill, and the tiny village that now is Maui’s county seat.

But Bailey was far more than a painter. He came to the Islands as a Protestant missionary and worked at many tasks to serve God, care for his adopted community, and feed his family.

“Wailuku Plantation” is a fitting example of his many skills. It shows the Ka‘ahumanu Church he designed and sugarcane fields he planted. In the distance is the district of Waikapu, whose boundaries Bailey surveyed.

Hidden by greenery is the school where he taught and the first bridge ever to cross the ‘Īao Stream, engineered and built by Bailey.

Bailey was such a Renaissance man that it’s difficult to summarize his life’s work. His biographer, Linda McCullough Decker, encountered this when trying to come up with a subtitle for her book, Edward Bailey of Maui. Which of Bailey’s many professions should she highlight? In the end, she chose Teacher & Naturalist, Engineer & Artist, touching on a few of the occupations practiced by this versatile Maui pioneer.

Today, Bailey’s paintings offer a visual record of the island found nowhere else, and letters to and by him (quoted extensively in “Wailuku Plantation” by Edward Bailey.

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Decker’s book) provide a narrative of his remarkable life.

The house he lived in stands as the Bailey House Museum, home of the Maui Historical Society and its collection of archives and artifacts of Maui history.

Bailey came to Hawai‘i as a teacher in 1837. A farmer’s son from Holden, Massachusetts, he had been swept up in a wave of Christian religious fervor that inspired hundreds of young Americans to evangelize “heathen” peoples across the globe. In 1820, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent the First Company of missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, as Hawai‘i was then known.

Edward was to join the Eighth Company.

An experienced teacher, he lacked one important thing — a wife. The mission board required that young men be married before leaving for foreign shores lest they be tempted by the native women, and pious young women with a yearning for adventure were often happy to oblige.

Edward found his wife, Caroline Hubbard, within his own hometown congregation.

The newlyweds set off on a difficult five-month sea voyage around Cape Horn and, after stints at mission stations on O‘ahu and Hawai‘i Island, arrived at Maui’s Lahainaluna Seminary in Lahaina. The first secondary school west of the Rockies, Lahainaluna was established in 1831 to train Hawaiian men to be preachers, teachers, and civil servants.

These educated men would need proper Christian wives, so a boarding school for Hawaiian girls opened a few years later in Wailuku, on royal land given to the mission by the governor of Maui. Transferred across the island to the Wailuku mission station in 1840, the Baileys took over the Wailuku Female Seminary in 1842.

They would live in the school’s stone buildings for more than 45 years, teaching, rearing five sons, and farming to raise food for their students and themselves. He taught the three R’s, as well as science, singing, and Sunday school. He remodeled the school buildings, cultivated what one visitor described as “the prettiest missionary’s garden in the islands,” and organized operations so that “inside and out good management and industry is displayed,” another visitor wrote.

What few quiet moments he could find in his demanding schedule, Bailey used to study, read, or draw in an effort to keep up his own intellectual development.

Fascinated by botany, he collected and drew local flora, sending specimens to collections around the world.

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Bailey wrote that the taste for moneymaking had been left out of his makeup; one of the few abilities he did not possess.

A poor economy in the United States and changing ideas about evangelization led to the closing of the Wailuku Female Seminary in 1849, and the Hawai‘i missions were required to become self-supporting. Already stretched thin despite a frugal lifestyle, Bailey now had to provide the entire support for his family.

Fortunately, the mission board gave those missionaries who would stay in Hawai‘i the houses they occupied, and Bailey was able to purchase the school’s farmland with $90 he had earned by surveying during his vacations and on Saturdays. He also persuaded the mission board to give him the school buildings, where he opened a private English-language day school. But ill health caused by a sedentary lifestyle soon forced him to close the school and take up more active work.

Bailey later wrote that the taste for moneymaking had been left out of his makeup; it seems to have been one of the few abilities he did not possess. He worked hard, laying out roads, assessing taxes, and supervising government schools.

He also grew sugarcane and built a mill on his property.

Market variations made it a struggle for E. Bailey & Sons Sugar Plantation to earn a profit, and Bailey began to paint in the hope of raising funds. His work eventually was exhibited in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Paris, but did not make him rich. In old age, he was dependent on his sons.

Yet Bailey left a valuable legacy in his paintings of landscapes, mission churches, sugar mills, and his own home.

He also left family — two of his sons lived out their lives on Maui, one married to a Hawaiian woman of noble descent — and Bailey’s descendants are strong supporters of the Maui Historical Society today. Set in a tranquil garden, the Bailey House Museum includes the three-story home where Edward and Caroline raised their boys. It is the primary repository for Bailey’s paintings, many of which are on display and some of which have been restored through an ongoing project. “The restored paintings show more clearly the beauty of Maui and the details of life in the nineteenth century,” Decker says.

He spent his final years in California, where he painted every day. A report from his 89th birthday party said he was “a wonder and an inspiration to his friends.” Though he died soon thereafter, in 1903 — the last male survivor of the missionaries sent by the New England mission board to evangelize the Sandwich Islands — thankfully his work keeps vividly alive our memories of those faraway days on Maui.

(From top) Bailey at his easel, capturing the immense beauty of Maui in the late 1800s; and a portrait of Bailey showing his full, white beard and formal dress.

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In the 1961 film Blue Hawaii, Elvis sang, “Dreams come true in blue Hawai‘i.” Every visitor to Maui comes to understand exactly what the lyric means.

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Royal Hawai‘i is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth.

Surrounded by “Big Blue” (the Pacific Ocean), the Islands are 2,390 miles from California and 3,850 miles from Japan. You can’t get to either on a paddleboard, but you sure can enjoy a day on the beach, or in the warm waters just offshore.

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Teal Throughout history, blue has been a color associated with everything from royalty to divinity.

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Just 6.9 miles from Maui’s southwestern shore, Kaho‘olawe is slowly being restored to its rightful place of rugged beauty and cultural significance for the Hawaiian people.

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DESTRUCTIVE PAST, HOPEFUL FUTURE (Left) In modern times, Kaho'olawe has endured decades of misuse, including severe erosion caused by feral goats, depleted resources from sheep and cattle ranching, and being used as a bombing range by the U.S. Navy. Since 1990, though, Hawaiian groups have dedicated themselves to reclaiming the island as a cultural and spiritual symbol of Hawaiian renaissance.

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AHO‘OLAWE is the smallest of the eight major islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, with a surface area covering just 45 square miles. Prominently visible from Wailea Resort, it is located 6.9 miles southwest of Maui, separated by the ‘Alalākeiki Channel.

Archeological evidence suggests that Hawaiians came to Kaho‘olawe as early as 400 A.D., settling in small fishing villages along the island’s coast. To date, nearly 3,000 archeological and historical sites and features paint a picture of Kaho‘olawe as a once-thriving navigational center for voyaging, the site of an adze quarry, an agricultural center, and a site for religious and cultural ceremonies.

In modern times, Kaho‘olawe underwent a harsh evolution. It was used briefly as a penal colony, for sheep and cattle ranching, and eventually transferred to the U.S. Navy for use as a bombing range. Litigation forced an end to the bombing in 1990 and the island was placed under the administration of the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC). Following a 10-year period of unexploded ordnance removal, control of access to Kaho‘olawe was transferred to the State of Hawai‘i.

The publication of Kaho‘olawe: Nā Leo o Kanaloa (‘Ai Pōhaku Press, 1995), brought the Hawaiian perspective of Kaho‘olawe to print for the first time, shedding light on the history, cultural significance, and long effort to reclaim this sacred place for the Hawaiian people.

Since the book was published in 1995, the U.S. Navy has cleared unexploded ordnance and metal from nine percent of the island’s subsurface (2,650 acres) and from another 68 percent of the island’s surface (19,464 acres). The island is today managed by the State of Hawai‘i Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) as a cultural trust for eventual transfer to a sovereign Native Hawaiian governing entity. It is a sacred island for the preservation and practice of Native Hawaiian culture. Commercial uses of the island are prohibited.

The photographs reproduced on the following pages, as well as the excerpt from Rowland B. Reeve’s impassioned introduction to Kaho‘olawe: Nā Leo o Kanaloa, provide a rare glimpse of this mysterious island so important to the Hawaiian people.

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The long struggle to reclaim and restore the island of Kaho‘olawe has made its name familiar to anyone in Hawai‘i who reads a local paper or tunes in to the evening news. Yet the island itself remains oddly unknown to most Hawai‘i residents, not to mention the millions who come here each year as visitors. Public perceptions of Kaho‘olawe have been shaped mainly by headlines and news clips, by the patter of flight attendants, and by the images that photographers and TV camera crews have captured during quick trips to the island. A few more than five thousand of us — under one percent of the resident population — have ever set foot on Kaho‘olawe. Most know it better as a political symbol than as an actual place, and in the public eye it remains small and lifeless and remote, a barren island of scarred, red earth and windblown dust.

This book reveals the current look and feel of the island as well as the story of its past. We hope these books will bring Kaho‘olawe alive for those who have not yet had the opportunity to see the island for themselves — to walk its coastline or explore its hills, to experience its quiet beauty and feel its mana.

In this volume we have stood aside and let the island speak for itself as directly as possible, through the voices of Hawaiian poets, historians, and storytellers and through the lenses of four photographers.

Those who have the privilege of spending much time on Kaho‘olawe tend to be deeply affected by the experience. What it is that we find so moving is hard to express. Perhaps it is the island’s physical beauty, its mingled sense of tragedy and hope, or the powerful, lingering presence of ka po‘e kahiko, the people of old.

Though the printed page can never fully convey the mana of Kaho‘olawe, the words and images of this book may at least offer a sense of the island’s breadth, beauty, and spirit. We hope the voices that speak through these pages will deepen your knowledge and love not only of Kaho‘olawe but of all Hawai‘i, and that they may inspire you to continue the struggle to protect and preserve ke ea o ka ‘āina, the life of the land.

OFFERINGS TO THE GODS (Left) A fishing shrine stands on the southeast ridge of Hakioawa, where the Hawaiians of old would make their offerings and prayers for success in the catch. (Above) The magnificent south coast of Kaho'olawe, with its tall cliffs and rugged shoreline, as it appears from the air.

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Deep Chant of Kaho‘olawe from our Ancestors ‘U‘ina, kaulona i ka pū waikaua ‘U‘ina, listen to the conch shell

Kahua pae ‘ili kīhonua āhua The channel is shallow

Wehewehe mai nei kahi ao Dawn is breaking

Puehu ka lepo o Moa‘ula Dust is spreading over Mount Moa‘ula

Kū mai nā wa‘a kaulua Two double-hulled canoes are sighted

Pu‘uhonua mo‘o kahuna kilo pae honua Gathering place of the kahuna classes to study astronomy

Kūkulu ka iwi o ka ‘āina, ‘Ailana Kohemalamalama Land is sighted, to your left it is like heaven all lit up

Pōhaku ahu ‘aikūpele kāpili o Keaweiki Stone of deep magic of Keaweiki Kau lī lua ka makani ke hae nei The wind that tears along is chilly Kāwele hele nei ‘o Hineli‘i, nāpo‘o ka lā i Kahikimoe Light rain is falling, the sun is setting towards Kahikimoe Nue mai ke ao Lanikau The glow after the sunset is like the colors of the rainbow Kapu mai ka honua, kūpa‘a loa The world seems to be standing still Pau ka luhi ‘ana o ka moana We shall no more labor on the ocean Mana‘o hālana pū i ke Akua My thoughts are enlightened towards God

Ho‘ohiki kēia moku iā Kanaloa We dedicate this island to Kanaloa Akua o ka moana ‘ili, moana uli God of the shallow and deep ocean

He aloha pili kau no kēia ‘āina My love for this land will always be deep within my heart

Ke holo nei me ke au kāhili We are running in an erratic current

Aloha nō ka mana o nā kūpuna I love the knowledge and power of my ancestors

‘Ōhaehae mai ka makani The wind is blowing from all directions

Recorded and translated by Harry Mitchell

‘Alalā keiki pua ali‘i The chief's child is crying

Copies of Kaho‘olawe: Nā Leo o Kanaloa can be ordered at: www.nativebookshawaii.com

Ka piko hole pelu o Kanaloa The curled navel of Kanaloa PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: (PAGEs 54, 55) ©FRANCO SALMOIRAGHI; (PAGE 56, FROM TOP) ©ROWLAND B. REEVE; ©DAVID ULRICH; ©DAVID ULRICH; ©FRANCO SALMOIRAGHI; (PAGE 57) ©FRANCO SALMOIRAGHI; (PAGE 58) ©WAYNE LEVIN; (PAGE 59) ©FRANCO SALMOIRAGHI; (PAGE 60) ©FRANCO SALMOIRAGHI; (PAGE 61) ©DAVID ULRICH

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REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST (Right) In 1992, a mua ha'i kūpuna (platform of remembrance for the ancestors) was constructed on bluffs above Hakioawa.

The structure, which faces across the 'Alalākeiki Channel toward Molokini and Haleakalā, was dedicated to those now gone who loved Kaho'olawe and cared for its land and waters.

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Pūē ke kanaka mai ka wa‘a mai The men cheer from the canoe

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Life, Wailea Style The ingredients of an ideal lifestyle

JUST ASK ANYONE who lives in this community, “Why Wailea?” and their face will

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light up as they point to Haleakalā, the 10,023-foot mountain that rises majestically behind the resort, and then sweep their arm down to the magnificent ocean panorama before them. This is the 1,500-acre jewel of South Maui...this is Wailea Resort: luxury homes and accommodations set upon a beautiful green landscape under exceptionally blue skies.

The mountain slope provides million-dollar ocean, mountain, and garden views whether you are in a 5,000-square-foot residence or a 900-square-foot condo. And the lifestyle choices have something for everyone, including villas, condominiums, contemporary Hawaiian duplexes, single family homes, and townhome residences.

Some buyers have chosen to find a site and build their dream from the ground up, while others ponder the effortlessly luxurious possibilities of life in a condo or villa.

Wailea’s vacation properties are impressive, with services and amenities that

parallel the resort’s luxury hotels. Such amenities as daily housekeeping and a fully equipped kitchen are the norm, and you can tailor your experience with a private chef, personal concierge, or adventure guide.

The resort offers many pleasures for you to experience daily, such as awardwinning restaurants, rejuvenating spas, and exceptional shopping. Or you can relax and enjoy the simple pleasure of a leisurely walk at sunrise or sunset on the Coastal Walk that meanders alongside the five white-sand crescent beaches.

Add up the many luxurious choices for renting, buying, or building a home, with the award-winning golf courses, wintertime whale watching, seasonal pampering, and attentive resort management, and you will know exactly why people choose to “live Wailea.”

For more information on the Wailea Resort lifestyle experience, please visit www.wailearesortassociation.com

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Luxury homes and

accommodations offer services equal to the magnificent environment.

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INSPIRATION

Sweet Adventures with Waimea Chocolate Company

By George Fuller

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CHOCOLATE LOVERS TAKE NOTE: Sweet Paradise Chocolatier in the Wailea Gateway Center is one stop you definitely want to make while visiting Wailea Resort. Here, among the many taste treats and tempting choices, you’ll find the handcrafted creations of Waimea Chocolate Company. Linger long and prosper. Not only are these some of the best candies made in Hawai‘i, but their story is equally captivating.

Waimea Chocolate Company’s president and chief confectioner, Bob Dye, is a fourth-generation Hawaiian chocolate maker and descendant of the family who first had the extremely inspired idea of combining chocolate with macadamia nuts back in 1927. Dye’s great-grandfather, John Dye, settled in Hawai‘i in 1906, becoming manager of the candy department in the old Alexander Young Hotel in Honolulu.

So popular were his sweets that John’s business grew, eventually becoming known as Dye’s Kandy Kitchen. As his three children grew up, they too worked in the kitchen alongside John and Georgina Dye. By 1934, Dye’s reputation as a candy man had spread so far and wide that even President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in Honolulu as part of a world tour aboard the USS Houston, heard about Dye’s store and sent his assistant to pick up some chocolates.

A note from the White House signed by Roosevelt himself arrived a few weeks later and still hangs in Bob Dye’s office. “My sincere thanks and appreciation...I am taking the candies to Mrs. Roosevelt.”

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Candy Man

“My fondest memories as a child were of being the proverbial ‘kid in the candy store.’ ”–BOB DYE

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INSPIRATION

In 1960, the family business—then known as Ellen Dye Candies—was sold to Mamoru Takitani, who renamed it Hawaiian Host Chocolates, by which it is still known and thriving today.

Fast-forward 50 years to 2010. This was the year that Bob Dye, who is also general manager of The Shops at Wailea, decided to restart the family’s chocolate-making tradition. “I’ve always had chocolate in my blood,” Dye says, “and I wanted to carry my family’s legacy forward to reintroduce the Dye name to the emerging Hawai‘i cacao industry.”

It was the realization of a lifelong dream for Dye. “My fondest memories as a child were of being the proverbial ‘kid in the candy store’ and my grandfather, Earl, the larger-than-life character who created this very magical world.

“As an aficionado of fine chocolates, I wanted to create a confection native to Hawai‘i in every aspect possible. So, tinkering in the kitchen and working alongside one of Hawai‘i’s finest European-trained chocolatiers, I learned a lot about the complexities and nuances of the world’s best chocolates and came up with what I feel is the ultimate chocolate-covered macadamia nut confection.”

Using only ingredients from Hawai‘i — including Hawaiian-grown cacao, macadamia nuts from Maui and the Big Island, Hawaiian ginger, salt, and chili peppers—Dye’s chocolate creations combine the long heritage of his family, the very best ingredients the Islands have to offer, and the evolving tastes of today’s chocolate lover.

“Whoever would have thought that chili pepper would make a great flavor companion to chocolate?” he asks. “Eating a fine chocolate today is different than it was even 10 years ago. It’s a lot of fun and it can be an adventure.”

It is exactly this spirit of fun and adventure that John Dye must have had when he combined chocolate with macadamia nuts almost 90 years ago. What flavor and texture combinations will Bob Dye come up with next? “I’m working on a few things,” he says with a smile. “I’m having fun.”

How sweet it is.

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Using only ingredients from Hawai‘i, Dye’s chocolate creations combine the long heritage of his family, the very best ingredients the Islands have to offer, and the evolving tastes of today’s chocolate lover.

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Celebrate the Good Life

Wailea Resort’s accommodations, services, and amenities are of a standard rarely seen within a single community. Situated on 1,500 acres of Maui’s sunniest shore, in the protected lee of Haleakalā, are five luxury hotels, vacation rentals, town homes, villas, and condos, all basking in weather averaging 82 degrees. A coastal trail connects them all along five white-sand beaches. Shops, spas, and

restaurants are within minutes of your front door wherever you are staying.

Sports enthusiasts select from three 18-hole championship golf courses — the Emerald, Gold, or Old Blue layouts — and tennis players will find the Wailea Tennis Club to be the perfect complement to a vacation at Wailea Resort. And then there’s the bathtub-warm Pacific Ocean, where snorkeling, kayaking, stand-up

The Coastal Walk stretches 1.5 miles from Keawakapu Beach to Polo Beach, offering a scenic option for a morning jog and a perfect perch for an afternoon sunset.

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Resorts, Amenities, and More

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paddleboarding, and other water sports are plentiful year round. Wailea Resort has it all. Perfect for families with children, wedding groups, honeymooners, or your annual island getaway, the combination of world-class accommodations, unparalleled amenities, and Maui’s most temperate climate makes Wailea Resort hard to beat.

Spas, restaurants and championship golf are all within minutes of luxury hotels, vacation rentals, condos, villas...and of course the inviting Pacific waters.

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www.andazmaui.com

www.drhmaui.com Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

www.fourseasons.com/maui Grand Wailea

www.grandwailea.com Hotel Wailea

www.hotelwailea.com The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui

www.fairmont.com/kealani Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa

www.waileamarriott.com Wailea Golf Club

www.waileagolf.com Wailea Tennis Club

www.waileatennis.com The Shops at Wailea

www.shopsatwailea.com Wailea Gateway Center

www.keanpropertieshawaii.com

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SERVICE

COCKTAILS/ENTERTAINMENT

Alan Wong's Amasia, Grand Wailea 808.891.3954

Hawai‘i Regional

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California & Island Cuisine

L/D

C/B/W

Pūpū

P

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Gourmet Deli & Market

B/L/D

B/W

Caffé Ciao Bakery & Deli, The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 808.875.4100

Gourmet Deli

B/L/D

B/W

Capische?, Hotel Wailea 808.879.2224

Italian/French

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Cheeseburger Island Style, The Shops at Wailea 808.874.8990

American

B/L/D

C/B/W

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, The Shops at Wailea 808.891.2045

Coffee Shop

B

N/A

Steak/Seafood

B/D

C/B/W

Italian

L/D

C/B/W/E

Hawai‘i Regional

B/L/D

C/B/W/E

American

B/Br

C/B/W

Gourmet Deli

L/P

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Honua‘ula Lu‘au, Grand Wailea 808.875.7710

Lu‘au Show

Buffet

C/B/W/E

Honolulu Coffee Co., The Shops at Wailea 808.875.6630

Coffee Shop

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N/A

Pacific Rim

D

C/B/W/E

American/Hawai‘i Regional

D

C/B/W

Sushi/Japanese Tapas

L/D

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Bistro Molokini, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100 Botero Gallery Bar, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100 Café Kula Marketplace, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100

DUO, Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 808.874.8000 Ferraro's Bar e Ristorante, Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 808.874.8000 Gannon's, Wailea Gold & Emerald Golf Courses 808.875.8080 Grand Dining Room, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100 Guava, Gouda & Caviar, Wailea Gateway Center 808.874.3930

Humuhumunukunukuapua‘a, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100 Joe's, Wailea Tennis Club 808.875.7767 KAI Wailea, The Shops at Wailea 808.875.1955

KEY TO DINING ABBREVIATIONS: Service: (B) Breakfast; (Br) Brunch; (L) Lunch; (D) Dinner; (P) Pūpū/Appetizer. Cocktails/Entertainment: (C) Cocktails; (E) Entertainment; (B/W) Beer and Wine.

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Plantation-Era Inspired

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American

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Pūpū/Dessert

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Mediterranean/Seafood

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Pūpū

P

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Mediterranean

B/D

C/B/W

Manoli's Pizza Company, 100 Wailea Ike Drive 808.874.7499

Italian

L/D

C/B/W

Monkeypod Kitchen, Wailea Gateway Center 808.891.2322

Handcrafted Hawai‘i Regional

L/D

C/B/W/E

Irish/American

B/L/D

C/B/W/E

Modern Classic/Seafood

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Mediterranean

L/D

C/B/W/E

American

L

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Steaks/Seafood

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Pacific Rim

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Coffee Shop

B/L

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Sandwich/Deli

B/L

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Lu‘au Show

Buffet

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American/Caribbean

L/D

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American

L

C/B/W

Deli

B/L/P

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Kō, The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 808-875-2210 Kumu Bar & Grill, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa 808.879.1922 Lobby Lounge, Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 808.874.8000 Longhi's, The Shops at Wailea 808.891.8883 Luana Lounge, The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 808.875.4100 Māla Restaurant & Lounge, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa 808.875.9394

Mulligans on the Blue, 100 Kaukahi St. 808.874.1131 Nick's Fishmarket Maui, The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 808.879.7224 Pita Paradise, Wailea Gateway Center 808.879.7177 Polo Beach Grille & Bar, The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 808.875.4100 Ruth's Chris Steak House, The Shops at Wailea 808.874.8880 Spago, Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 808.879.2999 Starbucks, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa 808.874.7981 Subway, Wailea Gateway Center 808.875.7827 Te Au Moana, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa 808.827.2740 Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar, The Shops at Wailea 808.875.9983 Volcano Grill & Bar, Grand Wailea 800.888.6100 Whalers General Store, The Shops at Wailea 808.891.2039

KEY TO DINING ABBREVIATIONS: Service: (B) Breakfast; (Br) Brunch; (L) Lunch; (D) Dinner; (P) Pūpū/Appetizer. Cocktails/Entertainment: (C) Cocktails; (E) Entertainment; (B/W) Beer and Wine.

Restaurant Week Twice a year, in November and May, participating restaurants throughout Wailea Resort offer their finest cuisine in remarkable three-course, pre-fixe menus for just $29, $39 or $49 per person.

Restaurant Week takes place May 26 to June 1, 2013.

For details and menus, and for more information, visit www.wailearesortassociation.com.

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Fresh, local tomatoes are used in many dishes at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea.

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LOCAL FARM-FRESH FOODS

Working Hand-in-Hand with Wailea’s Chefs

By Carla Tracy

Chuck Boerner, Ono Organic Farm

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M

AUI CHEFS AND FARMERS are often celebrated like rock stars. Many of the tasty foods we find on our plates are not only grown in the fertile Maui soil, but often they are grown to order — boutique agriculture, if you will — for chefs and restaurateurs by dedicated small farmers who, these days, are more like partners than suppliers.

Of course, there are still traces of the old days when agriculture was king and tourism was a distant dream. Maui hangs on as the last Hawaiian island to grow commercial sugarcane, and certain slopes on Mount Haleakalā still turn a golden hue when fragrant pineapple ripen in the sun.

Further up Haleakalā, Kula onions remain as sweet as when Chinese immigrants brought the first bulbs here in the 1850s. Coffee celebrates its 200th anniversary

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Grand Wailea’s apiary delivers delicious Rooftop Honey.

in Hawai‘i this year, and Maui boasts statewide award-winners from Keokea, who grow beans to brew the best cup of Joe. Dating back even further to ancient times, kalo (taro) — a staple of the Hawaiian diet, brought here on canoes from southern Polynesia — is still grown on Maui, and its lore and legend as elder brother of all plants is still respected.

Adding to these historic staples, new crops are budding everywhere. Exotic vanilla beans hang from vines deep in the jungles, olive trees are starting to mature in orchards, and aromatic lavender wave gently in purple fields. Berkshire pigs are humanely raised in green Haiku pasture land, and herds of Kula goats produce milk for creamy gourmet cheeses. Maui even boasts homegrown wines produced at Tedeschi Vineyards in the green upcountry at Ulupalakua Ranch.

THIS page (LEFT and top right) ©Steve Brinkman Photography, courtesy Maui County Farm Bureau ; (bottom right) © courtesy Grand Wailea

Greg Friel, Haleakalā Ranch

previous SPREAD (left) ©Courtesy Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea; (right) ©Steve Brinkman Photography, courtesy Maui County Farm Bureau.

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No longer are chefs dictated to by vendors who tell them what’s available.

Instead, they work hand-in-hand with farmers, fishermen, and ranchers, specifically asking for what they want to put on their menus. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

The end results are fresh-as-it-gets tastes that burst with flavor on your restaurant plate.

Executive Chef Tylun Pang of The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui, partners with fourth-generation island growers Chauncey Monden of Kula Country Farms to procure ripe, juicy strawberries, and Bryan Otani for rainbow baby carrots, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts.

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The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui’s Executive Chef Tylun Pang

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“When Chauncey’s strawberries arrive ... you can smell them coming.” — TYLUN PANG

“When Chauncey’s strawberries arrive at the resort, you can smell them coming,” says Pang, the current recipient of the Maui County Farm Bureau’s Friends of Agriculture Award. “They are so fresh, sweet, and juicy! We support Chauncey, and he is a great resource for teaching the importance of buying and eating local for all ages.”

Pang brought “local” a step closer to the resort with the recent unveiling of his own culinary garden, situated in view of guests at The Fairmont.

“The garden will support the resort’s four restaurants and supplement the vegetables and herbs that are currently sourced from Upcountry farmers,” says Pang. “We’re growing four types of basil, two types of chives, rosemary, lemongrass, coriander, cilantro, thyme, sage, dill, and oregano, as well as carrots, sweet bell peppers, and jalapenos.”

Another executive chef creating lots of buzz is Eric Faivre of Grand Wailea.

That’s because he and beekeeper Ken Darr, along with Director of Landscaping Jim Heid, produce up to five gallons of white kiawe-blossom honey per month on the hotel’s rooftop apiary.

With six restaurants, along with bars, lounges, and special group events, Faivre says finding a market for the honey was easy. “The honey is incorporated into all of the restaurant menus to varying degrees,” he says. “We serve it in everything

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from granola parfait with mango, orange, banana, and rooftop honey for breakfast to black-lava-salted prawns with rooftop-honey spaghetti squash in sake-beurre rouge on our dinner menu.”

At Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Executive Chef Roger Stettler slices heavenly tomatoes from Haiku by Tamimi Farms. The tomatoes are used throughout the hotel’s dining outlets, in dishes such as the Caprese salad at Ferraro’s Bar e Ristorante. He arranges the vine-ripened tomatoes with burrata alla panna (a lesser known, ephemeral cousin of mozzarella cheese), extra virgin olive oil, Hawaiian sea salt, and fresh Italian basil.

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Geoff Haines at Waipoli Farms

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Adding to historic staples, new crops are budding everywhere, from exotic vanilla beans to aromatic lavender to Berkshire pigs.

“Zuhair Tamimi of Tamimi Farms, in my opinion, is a genius in growing tomatoes,” Stettler says. “They are juicy, bright red, yellow, or black, and very flavorful. We are using his tomatoes resort-wide and it is indeed a chef ’s dream to work with such a top-notch product.”

Stettler also incorporates Mālama Farm’s crispy pork belly into the menu at DUO Steak and Seafood, and dazzles guests with its presentation of Swiss chard, preserved local Meyer lemon, and Hamakua mushrooms and fingerling potato hash with fresh island herbs.

“If you have not eaten Lehua and David Fitch’s Mālama Farm Berkshire pork, you are really missing out,” says Stettler. “It’s got outstanding quality and spectacular flavors. It does not matter if it is whole spit-roasted or served as medallions.

“Occasionally we do buy Moloka‘i shrimp, which we use for special-occasion menus,” Stettler continues. “We also love Michael McCoy’s products. He’s a very talented individual at ‘Aina Farm in Kula, who truly understands what chefs want. He does not grow huge quantities, but if he says he can do it, you better believe it, he will, from gorgeous herb blends to fresh spice leaves to exotic super fruits.”

Maui’s chefs and farmers are leading the island toward a sustainable future.

They’re the new rock stars, taking turns in the spotlight and driving the beat.

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Maui Grown Celebrations The 21st annual East Maui Taro Festival will be pounding with non-stop Hawaiian culture, food, music, and fun, Saturday, April 20, at Hana Ballpark.

It’s family-friendly and free, and open to the public. www.tarofestival.org.

Not a tear will be shed at Maui Onion Festival, Saturday, May 4, at Whalers Village Fine Shops and Restaurants in Ka‘anapali. Celebrate and more. www.whalersvillage.com/onionfestival.htm.

Taste of Wailea, Saturday, June 15, is the signature event of the 2013 Maui Film Festival at Wailea. Set on the slopes above Celestial Cinema, it’s got jaw-dropping views, gourmet food and drink, and the ticket includes cutting-edge movies. www.mauifilmfestival.com.

Wailea’s pastry chefs will compete to create a Signature Dessert for 2013, and you may sample the entries as part of a community fundraiser for Best Buddies Hawaii at the Life is Sweet event Saturday, November 9, at The Shops at Wailea. www.bestbuddieshawaii.org.

Grow Some Good events are held four times a year (next one scheduled for July 20 at Capische? restaurant) benefitting schoolgarden programs throughout Maui. Top Wailea chefs prepare inspiring cuisine with school-garden ingredients. www.growsomegood.org.

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Maui’s famous bulb with cooking demos, contests, music, food booths,

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The Pleasures of Shopping and Dining IF YOU LOVE to shop but are easily exhausted by the madness that prevails at malls, it’s time for a new paradigm.

Here’s a pleasant change: leisurely shopping, abundant parking, superb service, and top-drawer boutiques and restaurants—all within a single 162,000square-foot complex that perfectly captures the resort experience.

Close to the shoreline in South Maui, The Shops at Wailea is changing the way people shop, dine, and spend their vacations. Relaxed shoppers and diners say au revoir to the long lines, elbow-toelbow crowds, zero parking, and deafening sound systems that typically mar the retail experience. There’s leisurely, relaxed dining. And gallery-hopping with ease. Style, too, is redefined. The Shops at Wailea is the ultimate perk in paradise, an open-air, two-story complex of more than 70 galleries, restaurants, and shops of exquisite taste.

Located in Wailea Resort, between Grand Wailea and Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, within minutes of the surrounding hotels and residences, The Shops at Wailea offers generous parking on the north and south sides, convenient and close. International high-fashion icons mingle with casual, familyowned shops, and eclectic dining choices reward every leaning. From sushi, steak, pasta, and long tropical happy hours to ice cream, snacks, and designer coffee, this is a place for lingering.

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Hot shops and cool looks at Maui’s retail magnet

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Here, global giants appear side-by-side with national brands in leisure wear, taking you from the beach to an elegant dinner in one seamless sweep. Island-oriented retailers provide the practical items you need for the beach, picnic, and villa.

You can have a manicure on the spot, or you can discover celebrity art or aloha wear while the aroma of freshly baked waffle cones wafts through the atrium area.

Galleries on both levels present art lovers with more than their share of eye candy.

There’s art in many forms here, not just in shopping and dining. When dining, shopping, art, crafts, and the spirit of leisure unite in a single premium destination, it’s called the art of gracious living.

3750 Wailea Alanui, 808.891.6770, TheShopsAtWailea.com, @ShopsAtWailea on Twitter. Open daily 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

WOW! Wailea on Wednesdays, a Festival of Arts weekly, live music 6:30 to 8 p.m., one-night-only restaurant and store specials, plus gallery receptions with featured artists.

RETAILERS AND RESTAURANTS

• BCBGMAXAZRIA • Bottega Veneta • Caché • Coach • Cos Bar • The Enchantress Boutique • Folli Follie • Gucci • ILORI • L’Occitane • Louis Vuitton • St. John Boutique • White House/Black Market

Island & Casual Wear • Banana Republic • Billabong • Blue Ginger/ Blue Ginger Kids • Canyon Beachwear • Chico’s • Crazy Shirts • CY Maui/Manikin • Gap/babyGap • Honolua Surf Co. • Karamel Collections • Maui Clothing Company • Maui Waterwear • Moonbow Tropics • Quiksilver

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Jewelry

Dining & Snacks

Real Estate & Personal Services

• Cheeseburger Island Style • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf • Honolulu Coffee Co. • KAI Wailea • Lappert’s Ice Cream & Coffee • Longhi’s • Ruth’s Chris Steak House • Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar

Art Galleries • The Art of Peter Max • Célébrités Gallery of Fine Art • Dolphin Galleries • Eclectic Image Gallery • Élan Vital Galleries • Ki`i Galleries • Lahaina Galleries

• Baron & Leeds • Black Pearl Gallery • Dolphin Galleries • Lambros Goldsmith • Na Hoku • Swarovski Crystal • Tiffany & Co.

• Century 21—All Islands • Coldwell Banker Island Properties • Island Sotheby’s International Realty • Maui Dive Shop • Sisters & Co. Boutique & Salon • The Wailea Group • Wailea Realty • Windermere Valley Isle Properties

Specialty Gifts & Sundries • ABC Stores • Elephant Walk— A Gallery of Life • Hawaiian Quilt Collection • Martin & MacArthur • Sand People • Whalers General Store

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Shops, Galleries and More Hot Shops at Wailea Resorts The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui 4100 Wailea Alanui 808.875.4100 THE FAIRMONT STORE

This signature store has all you need, from casual resort wear to logo wear for men, women and children; books and music; local artwork and madeon-Maui gifts. A green corner features eco-savvy items and coconut postcards, and agriculturally approved Maui pineapples are available to ship home.

ISLAND SUNSATIONS

Calvin Klein, VIX, Gottex and Trina Turk are among the top names in swimwear and resort wear offered for the entire family. The sun-friendly finds include hair accessories, sarongs, sandals, Havaiana slippers, jewelry and Maui Jim sunglasses.

JUVENAL & CO. HAIR SALON

The top-to-toe offerings include hair styling, manicures, pedicures and facial waxing. You can also purchase Aveda hair products, as well as hair accessories, bath products, makeup and jewelry.

books, lean, stretchy Beyond Yoga and OMgirl yoga wear—this is no ordinary spa boutique.

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 3900 Wailea Alanui 808.874.8000 22 KNOTS

With fine jewelry, designer exclusives and high-end fashion, this luxury boutique makes a strong sartorial statement. The fashion designer icons—Missoni, Pucci, Lanvin, Stella McCartney and more—add plenty of sparkle to the shopping experience.

CABANA

Chic, comfortable, and exclusive printed tees and rash guards by James Perse, along with designer beachwear, apparel, shoes and accessories for men, women and kids. Casual luxe reigns, with everything from the classics to the contemporary.

HILDGUND JEWELRY

808.874.5800 Beautiful creations by Hildgund, long considered one of Hawai‘i’s premier jewelers.

SPA KEA LANI

Active wear so stylish it can be worn to work, top-of-the-line beauty products, Jane Iredale mineral-based cosmetics, OKA b. shoes, lifestyle

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PORTS

The travel essentials—sundries, logo wear, snacks and gift ideas—are covered in this thoughtful, colorful selection.

TOWN AND COUNTRY MAUI, INC.

GRAND WAILEA MEN'S SHOP

808.875.8822 Flowers can make the day, and here’s where you’ll find them: fragrant, fresh and exotic blooms and arrangements.

From the lavish to the minimalist, they’re suitable for any occasion.

Tommy Bahama, Toes on the Nose, and shirts, shorts, shoes and jackets put the spotlight on men. Whether it’s surf gear, swimwear, belts, hats or socks, this is designed for the active man with style.

KI`I GALLERY

The Grand Wailea Shops and Galleries 3850 Wailea Alanui 808.875.1234

You’ll find handmade jewelry, handblown art glass and luxurious jewelry of luminous, multi-colored South Seas pearls.

BEACH & POOL STORE

NA HOKU

Water toys, hats, footwear, sun shirts, waterproof cameras and tanning lotions are included in the large selection of fun-friendly supplies.

Exotic and elegant Na Hoku jewelry is inspired by the beauty and tradition of the Islands. Many of the intricately crafted pieces are enriched with Tahitian, Akoya or freshwater pearls.

CRUISE

The eye-catching, colorful resort wear and accessories include DIVA, one of swimwear’s most exclusive lines.

GRAND IMAGE BOUTIQUE

Spa Grande’s skincare products, therapeutic massage oils, elixirs and activewear fill yoga, fitness and beauty needs.

Maui’s own ‘Ala Lani and Island Essence lines and Kaua‘i’s Malie are among the beauty-enhancing salts, sprays, scrubs and spa products.

NAPUA GALLERY

A Dale Chihuly chandelier joins the original paintings, sculpture, jewelry and fine art items of this gallery, including works by the premier artists of Maui.

PINEAPPLE PATCH

Imaginative toys, books, puzzles and beachwear are among the finds for children. You’ll find everything but the sandcastle, including hats, slippers and sun shirts.

GRAND JEWELS OF WAILEA

QUIKSILVER

The estate, vintage, rare and high-fashion finds include diamond, platinum and 18k-gold jewelry, as well as oneof-a-kind pieces by Norman Silverman Diamonds, Inc.

The Roxy and Quiksilver signature is the latest in swimwear, board shorts, logo wear, sunglasses and backpacks for catching the waves or exploring Maui.

TRADEWINDS BOUTIQUE

GRAND WAILEA GIFT SHOP

Gift items from Hawai‘i can be found among the logo wear, souvenirs, sundries and resort accessories, such as beach bags, polo shirts and bathrobes.

The big names in resort wear— Lilly Pulitzer, Karen Kane, XCVI—are the Tradewinds attention-getters, along with a fine selection of handbags, sandals, accessories and essentials.

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WAILEA BREEZES

Paradise Chocolatier, Maui Memories, Jere’s Fine Jewelry and the hot new shop, Otaheite Hawaii, have got your shopping needs covered. The center is growing, and these retail magnets are making their mark.

It’s a breeze to put your best foot forward with this resort-savvy selection of men’s and women’s footwear.

Island Slipper and the best-selling OluKai are among the handbags, accessories and colorful casuals rounding out the selection.

Wailea Golf Club

WAILEA HEARTS

PRO SHOP, GOLD AND EMERALD CLUBHOUSE

Upbeat, heart-shaped details and accents add the Brighton signature to the selection of shoes, jewelry, accessories and handbags.

Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa 3700 Wailea Alanui 808.879.1922 ACCENTS

A one-stop shop for fun lovers, the shop offers snacks and sundries, beach and sports apparel, accessories, souvenirs and distinctive gifts.

100 Wailea Golf Club Drive 808.875.7450 Its 14 regional and national awards include designations as one of America’s top shops by Golf World Business and Golf for Women magazines, and the PGA of America named it the national resort Merchandiser of the Year. This is one of the largest pro shops in Hawai‘i and one of the best in the country, with jewelry, hats, handbags, organic made-on-Maui sunscreen, and fashions by the likes of Puma, Hugo Boss, Lilly Pulitzer, Bobby Jones, Ralph Lauren, Helen Kaminsky and other renowned brands.

GRANDE'S GEMS

Precious and semi-precious stones, Hawaiian charms, souvenirs and exquisite jewelry add a dash of sparkle to your vacation.

MANDARA SPA

Maui’s Island Essence mango-coconut body wash and Elemis lime-ginger scrub are among the finds of this fragrant spa shop. Treatment lines and beauty products uphold the East-West theme.

Wailea Gateway Center 34 Wailea Gateway Place 808.874.1818 Guava, Gouda & Caviar, Stuey’s Wine Cellar, Aloha Shirt Museum, Sweet

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WAILEA OLD BLUE CLUBHOUSE

120 Kaukahi Street 808.879.2350 Top-of-the-line golf apparel, equipment and accessories are part of The Old Blue’s fully stocked pro shop, but fashionable sportswear and athletic apparel also give a boost to the game.

Wailea Tennis Club PRO SHOP

131 Wailea Ike Place (808) 879-1958 Tennis enthusiasts will find great apparel, equipment, shoes and more at this full-service pro shop.

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In Hawaiian legend, the demigod Maui is said to have “pushed the heavens high and snared the sun” so that the people of his island could be blessed by its rays throughout the day. Thus do visitors to Maui find rejuvenation and a renewal of spirit in the warming sun and gentle waters of Wailea.

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