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ST. PATTY’S LUCK OF THE IRISH SUPPER 5:30 to 9 p.m. Anaina Hou Porter Pavilion, Kilauea Live Irish music for dancing, green microbrews, corned beef and cabbage dinner. Sponsored by Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay. Part of proceeds benefit the Kilauea Community Agriculture Center. Tickets are $50. Info: bit.ly/2SYfaoU SIERRA CLUB HIKE A day of Kokee trails, starting from Kokee Lodge Five-mile, moderate hike, covering three trails. Info: Ken Fasig, 3461229 SUNDAY
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ROBINSON FAMILY BOOK TALK 6 p.m. Waimea Public Library After discovering a box of old letters, Judith Burtner was surprised to learn that her grandmother, Hettie Belle, had worked as a governess for the Robinson family on Kauai over 100 years ago. Working with the Kauai Historical Society, Burtner searched for more context to tell her granny’s story in her book, “Robinson Family Governess.”
LIVE HAWAIIAN MUSIC 6 p.m., Aqua Kauai Beach Resort near Hanamaulu “E Kanikapila Kakou” means “Let’s all play stringed instruments together” in Hawaiian, and features Kalei Gamiao, Lopaka Colon, Jon Yamasato and Richard Gideon, combined to make Iron Mango. Info: giac05@icloud.com, 245-2733 WEDNESDAY
PRESENTATION ON PRINCE KUHIO 5 p.m., Princeville Public Library “The Life and Legacy of Prince Kuhio” is a Hawaiian civic club depiction, through narrative, music and pictures, of the story of Kauai’s beloved Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana‘ole. THURSDAY
FREE FILM SHOWING 6 p.m., Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center “Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX” premieres. The Kauai County Committee on the Status of Women and Prevention Awareness Understanding (PAU) Violence Kauai partner to bring the movie, about the University of Hawaii women’s volleyball team and early struggles for gender equity in college sports. Info: Edith Ignacio-Neumiller, 639-9973 or ainapono@gmail.com; Sandra Muragin, 241-4919 or smuragin@ kauai.gov
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CELEBRATING THE PRINCE
Kuhio Day festivities take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Anahola Beach Park DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY
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rince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana‘ole was not only born here in a location close to Poipu, on March 26, 1871. Kuhio, among his many life accomplishments, created the Hawaiian Homesteads program that returned land to Native Hawaiians as an encouragement to become self-sufficient farmers, ranchers and homesteaders. What is now the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Anahola Hawaiian Homes community is the first program created on Kauai under Kuhio’s leadership. “It’s not the first in Hawaii,” said Kaliko Santos of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. “But it was the first on Kauai. I know because my parents were one of the first people to receive land there.” Ka Hale Pono took the idea of Anahola being the first Hawaiian Homes community and took it a step further, creating the Anahola Prince Kuhio Day Celebration that will take place Saturday from 11 a.m.
GATHERINGS PLANNED AT HOTEL, BIRTHPLACE Prince Kuhio Festival All events at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa in Poipu unless otherwise indicated
Friday, March 22 9 a.m., e komo mai (join us) SEE GATHERINGS, PAGE 3
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Members of the combined halau of kumu hula La‘a Almeida and Troy Lazaro watch as Royal Order of Kamehameha attendants drape their lei ho‘okupu around the statue of Prince Kuhio last year during the commemorative service for Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana‘ole at Prince Kuhio Park in Poipu. ON THE COVER: Kuhio was a prince in the ruling house of Kalakaua when the kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in 1893. He was born on March 26, 1871, at Kukuiula, Kauai.
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at Anahola Beach Park. “Homesteaders normally don’t like to travel far for these types of events,” Santos said. “To this end, Ka Hale Pono decided to hold it in its backyard so the homesteaders can enjoy and celebrate Kuhio and his legacy.” There is no admission to experience the day of entertainment and cultural activities, craft vendors —
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many coming from Anahola — bounce houses and food being offered by local nonprofits as fundraisers. “Kamehameha Schools is having its outreach van on display,” Santos said. “I’ve never seen the inside of that van so I’m planning on being there to check out the new van.” In addition to the day of activities, entertainment, and exhibits, Ka Hale Pono has chosen to honor an individual — always from the Hawaiian Homes — whose work in the community
exemplifies traits similar to Kuhio. “This year, it’s Hosea Lovell who will be honored,” Santos said. “It’s unfortunate that he’s passed, but his work will be remembered along with his family.” Santos said the neat thing about the Anahola Prince Kuhio Day Celebration is that it’s like a ho‘olaule‘a, where the spectacle brings the community together. “We have had this event for the past nine years,” Santos said. “During that time,
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for the opening protocol honoring Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana‘ole, at 9 a.m., followed by a craft fair and silent auction until 3 p.m. During that same time, Hawaiian cultural and art practices will be taught through hands-on sessions. Kekai and Colleen Kapu will offer demonstrations of Hawaiian weapons, which will also be on display and for sale. Kahea Niau will offer a display of Ni‘ihau shell jewelry, and Vanya Fagasa will offer a session on lauhala-weaving. Aunty Janet Kahalekomo and ohana present Ho‘oulana i ka lau niu (coconut frond weaving). A poi-pounding demostration and salt-making session will also take place. The resort’s Anara Spa offers lomi lomi massage for $1 a minute. Auntie Malie Jumawan hosts a kapa-making (cloth-making) session. Wauke, the paper mulberry
Margy Parker / Special to TGIFR!DAY file Information and demonstrations of traditional Hawaiian cultural practices are shared at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa’s Prince Kuhio Festival from a previous year. Here, visitors learn about the importance of taro to Hawaiians and how it is pounded into poi.
plant, was pounded and made into kapa (cloth). Alu Like kupuna talk story, offer a lei-making session, and play Hawaiian music from 10 to 11 a.m., and Kahalau Leoiki performs live Hawaiian music from 11 a.m. to noon, joined by hula dancer Nicole Keahiolalo From 1 to 2 p.m., Kekai Chock and Kona Giminiz perform, with Keahiolalo dancing, and from 2 to 3 p.m. ‘Oiwi performs in Seaview Terrace. On Saturday, March 23 at 10 a.m. at Prince Kuhio
Park in Kukuiula will be the annual commemorative ceremonies by The Royal Order of Kamehameha, honoring Kuhio. Observe the protocol of honoring Kuhio through ho‘okupu (offering and gifts), dance and singing. It is free and open to the public. That evening, back at the resort’s Seaview Terrace, Tweety Kaluahine-Juarez plays music from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by a torch-lighting ceremony. — TGIFR!DAY
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I WISH I WERE IRISH
Local ingredients, live music, green beer all on the menu to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
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ress in green to support local greens this St. Patrick’s Day at Anaina Hou’s Porter Pavilion in Kilauea on Saturday from 5:30 p.m. It’s an evening of dancing to live Irish music, locally made corned beef and cabbage and games — an Irish supper in support of the Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay and Kilauea Community Agriculture Center. Tuesday afternoon, members of the Rotary Club were posting banners and KCAC’s Executive Director Yoshito L’Hote was gearing up for a chef to come visit the community farm. “He’s going to look at all the different things he’s going to be able to use,” L’Hote said. “He’s said he wants cabbage and carrots. We have lots of lettuce he can use.” Located on the right side of Kilauea Road on the way to the lighthouse, KCAC is where volunteers meet weekly to lend a hand growing 37 different crops — a total of 30,000 pounds of produce annually, distributed to schools, select restaurants and members through their Community Supported Agriculture program. Community members can also buy into the CSA program and receive weekly boxes of produce. In turn they support the farm and the overall goal of increasing local food production. L’Hote says the farm is producing enough to fill 50 boxes every week, and they’re selling about 40 each week. “We still have room,” L’Hote said. KCAC hosts field trips and internships, and it gives people a chance to get their hands in the dirt and learn new skills. The whole project is
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Monica Oszust, president-elect of the Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay, left, and Sandy Cole hold up one of the banners posted around the island earlier this week.
aimed at getting others involved in raising their own food. The St. Patrick’s Day extravaganza at Anaina Hou is another step in that cycle. “It should always be like that,” L’Hote said. Over at Anaina Hou, Operations Director Collin Darrell said that full circle of involvement is one of the reasons they’re looking forward to
hosting the Irish supper. “We’re supporting the farm and are able to utilize local ingredients to raise funds,” Darrell said. “The food is going to be cooked from scratch using local beef and products from the ag park.” Along with dancing and dinner, green beer and other games, Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay’s President Ben Gillikin said there’s a chance
for donors to win a Kauai vacation package. A donation to the club of $30 or more gets you a ticket number for the drawing. The grand prize is drawn on Sunday, and the winner gets a luxury vacation to Kauai including airfare, hotel, rental car and dining. At the Irish supper event itself, Gillikin said the goal is to draw a
crowd of at least 150 and generate awareness for both Anaina Hou and KCAC. Tickets are $50, and can be purchased at irishsupperkilauea.com, or at the door. More info: 346-7095 ••• Jessica Else, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@ thegardenisland.com.
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AN UNTAMED MAN AND HORSE CONNECT IN ‘THE MUSTANG’ LINDSEY BAHR ASSOCIATED PRESS
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e don’t find out our protagonist’s name for quite some time in “The Mustang,” (three stars out of four), the feature debut of French writer-director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. All we know at first is what we see and what Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts projects. A psychologist played by Connie Britton, in a brief but impactful role, tries to get a sense of his mental state having been in and out of solitary confinement in a rural Nevada penitentiary a number of times, but he’s not interested in playing along, or even trying. “I’m not good with people,” growls Schoenaerts as he hits her panic button to end the session. Schoenaerts is a commanding presence, and usually a quite empathetic one in films like “Rust and Bone” and “A Bigger Splash,” but here with a shaved
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Matthias Schoenaerts tries to wrangle a horse in a scene from “The Mustang.”
head and a rage simmering beneath his nearly dead eyes, he’s downright terrifying. His identity, you realize, is that of a prisoner. He doesn’t think about his past, his future or his needs. He merely exists. He even rebuffs the young pregnant woman (Gideon Adlon) who comes to visit. (It’s his daughter, you discover, but even that is left ambiguous for a moment).
brief, gorgeous film about It’s not until he’s assigned to manure duty as part of the correctional center’s wild horse training program that a light even starts to come back on, partly because the head of the program, Myles (Bruce Dern) treats the inmates like human employees, not criminals. He even asks our protagonist his name: Roman Coleman. The significance of naming will come back in this
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eventually even give it a name — Marquis, which he sees in a contraband equestrian magazine he traded for in the prison, but which he pronounces “Marcus.” There’s a sin in his past that’s never even alluded to, of course. It’s why he’s in there after all. Does no one know, you wonder? Or perhaps it’s too horrific for words. It’s revealed eventually, late in the film and not unlike that pivotal revelation in “Paris, Texas.” “The Mustang” is a powerful and emotional journey framed by gorgeous sun-soaked shots of the stark Nevada landscape.
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101 STORIES OF A MAN WHO INSPIRED MILLIONS BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY
hoping will be the start of a Christian revival here. In “Billy Graham & Me,” we learn just how highly regarded this man ith the Kauai Celebration was to so many, and why. It’s hard with Will Graham just not to think there must have been around the corner on May 3 to 5, it seems like a good time something special — and anointing — about Billy Graham that made to take a look at the 2013 Chicken Soup for the Soul book by Steve and him one of this country’s most Amy Newmark, “Billy Graham & Me: beloved figures who sat down with leaders worldwide. 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from The stories in “Billy Graham & Me” Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well.” best reflect his influence in ways that only a man of his grace and This book gives you insight as humility could have. to the impact Billy Graham had on Barack Obama, this country’s 44th some pretty important people. This president, wrote about his visit to was a man respected by everyone. He is considered perhaps America’s Billy Graham’s mountaintop home in North Carolina when he was on greatest and most effective evanvacation with his family. He got a gelist, preaching to millions in his chance to pray with and for Billy career before he passed away last Graham. year at the age of 99. “And the fact that I would ever His grandson, Will Graham, also be on top of a mountain, saying a a pastor, will be on Kauai the first weekend in May to lead the crusade prayer for Billy Graham — a man whose faith had changed the world at Vidinha Stadium that many are
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the message Billy Graham preaches, or is an atheist or of a different religion, he or she would still find him inspiring because he has been steadfast, knowing who he is, believing strongly that he is fulfilling his destiny.” Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, wrote: “I have met many people of great power and celebrity during the course of my lifetime; yet, there has always been a special quality about Billy Graham. Billy’s love for God which he says must extend to all people — to all of God’s creatures, and to the world that He and that had sustained him through has provided so that we may live triumphs and tragedies, and move- in faith, health and harmony — is a ments and milestones – that simple message that he preached to million across the planet — regardless fact humbled me to my core.” Journalist Dan Rather had this to of race, culture, nationality, ideology or religion.” say: If you’re looking for inspiration, for “This man is inspiring. I think that motivation, for something to brighteven if a person has no interest in
en your day and lift your spirits, “Billy Graham & Me,” is the book for you. It is not overly preachy, but it does make clear what Graham believed, why he believed it, and how those beliefs guided his every step. You will get an idea, at the least, of his impact that continues today. Billy Graham, by the way, was asked to write a final word for the book. He did. In part, here is what he wrote: “I am humbled by the gracious comments the contributors to this book have made about our ministry — although only God deserves the credit for any impact it has had. I am not a great man — but I do serve a great God, and I give Him all the glory for whatever my associates and I have been able to accomplish over the years.” ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@ thegardenisland.com.
JOHNNY CASH’S CABIN IS SETTING FOR FINE TODD SNIDER ALBUM STEVEN WINE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sessions, Vol. 3,” Snider is clearly inspired by his historic surroundings, and he came armed he microphone pops when Todd with marvelous material to enhance the intimate, Snider delivers front-porch feel. (The an especially emphatic lyric, and his chair creaks album title is a bit conunder the weight of his fusing, because there performance. The rustic was no Vol. 1 or 2, and charm of the setting — the CD jacket sports a Johnny Cash’s recording photo of Snider holding a single finger aloft.) studio in HendersonThe 34-minute set ville, Tennessee — is features mostly a oneaudible throughout an man band, with occaalbum that ranks with sional backing vocals Snider’s best work. from Jason Isbell and On “Cash Cabin
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Amanda Shires. Snider accompanies himself with Cash’s Martin guitar, a 12-string guitar, mandolin, harmonica and a four-string banjo that’s perfect on “The Blues on Banjo” even though he can barely play it. As usual, Snider’s best instrument is his sharp wit. He sings a song about a song, fondly remembers an Elvis roadie, reflects on the history of TV and addresses our current follies, most
pointedly on the closing “A Timeless Response to Current Events.” Snider makes it all as engaging as a visit from a funny friend, a vibe not easily created. According to the excellent liner notes, Snider’s breathtaking screed on “The Blues on Banjo” was captured on the first take, but other songs involved up to 40 takes. Polish is sometimes needed to achieve raw beauty, as Johnny Cash well knew.
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MOKIHANA CLUB THROWS A PARTY
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o we know how to throw a party?” asked Elyse Litvack, president of The Mokihana Club of Kauai, at the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort near Hanamaulu Saturday night. “We’ve got about 20 tickets remaining, and those will be gone in a few minutes.” The Mokihana Club of Kauai hosted a benefit concert and silent auction as a fundraiser for its scholarships benefiting nursing students at Kauai Community College as well as music scholarships for students who plan on pursuing study in music or the performing arts. “These fine ladies — who number less than a hundred — are marvelous workers,” said Charlie Iona, the evening’s emcee. “They have a goal of raising more than $30,000 that will benefit students.” Helping with the festivities and auction, students from the KCC nursing program facilitated the flow of shoppers through the aisles of merchandise and services contributed by community sponsors. Entertainers were Hawaiian slack-key guitar master Keola Beamer, who got help from his wife, Moanalani Beamer, and slack-key guitarist Jeff Peterson.
Gabriel Ornellas, Polei Palmeira, Beverly Muraoka
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