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26 The Ultimate Bibliophile

48 Maui en Plein Air

66 A Legend on the Links

WHEN OBSESSION IS A GOOD THING

CAPTURING MAUI’S BEAUTY ON CANVAS

BRENDA REGO, HAWAI‘I GOLF HALL OF FAME

BY JOCELYN FUJII

BY ILIMA LOOMIS

BY GRADY TIMMONS

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY RACHEL OLSSON

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56 Into the Woods

HŌKŪLE‘A VOYAGE, COMPLETE BUT ALSO BEGINNING

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Fear Overcome

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ALOHA IN ACTION

THE GENTLE, CALMING LIFE OF THE SOUTH SHORE

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10 Lei of the Land

88 Fun in the Sun

GET TING AROUND WAILEA

CALLING ALL SUN LOVERS

WHERE TO GO FOR FARE TO REMEMBER

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96 Aloha Moment

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THE BUZZ ABOUT TOWN

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Spring and summer have brought warm days

and refreshing ocean adventures, with soft breezes that bring enchantment to the evenings.

As I lie back and observe the night sky, with its abundance of stars and the luminous presence of the Milky Way, my thoughts go to the terrestrial stars that filled the resort at the recent 18th annual Maui Film Festival at Wailea.

Now, as fall approaches, we anticipate the return of koholā, the cherished humpback whales that migrate here annually.

You can share their joy of being here as you stroll along the Coastal Path, Wailea’s walkway, gathering place and pedestrian treasure. And you can observe, year-round, the daily spectacle of the glowing sunsets as you enjoy your walk.

The resort will soon prepare to celebrate the holidays in paradise. Parties are planned and celebrated with style, lights illuminate tree-lined entries, entertainment spreads the cheer, and it can all be experienced with aloha.

Whether enjoying a romantic dinner in one of our spectacular restaurants, special events such as the Maui Film Festival, or the biannual Restaurant Week celebration, you’re bound to enjoy our unique, year-round offerings.

We’re also proud of the aloha spirit our guests and residents experience daily. The cultures and traditions of Hawai‘i, including ‘ukulele, hula, surfing and ocean sports, are well represented here, and we also honor the cultural wayfinders and ocean channels that brought the early navigators to this shore.

The sunrise over Haleakalā never ceases to amaze, especially over the first sip of Maui coffee on a welcoming lānai. Here at Wailea, it’s easy to fulfill the wonderful visions you’ve had about Hawai‘i.

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!)

Frank “Bud” Pikrone General Manager, Wailea Resort Association For more information about Wailea Resort, please visit www.wailearesortassociation.com.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Dana Edmunds

Zach Pezzillo

The Ultimate Bibliophile, p. 26; A Legend on the Links, p. 66 As a Hawai‘i-based commercial photographer, Dana shoots for various editorial, advertising and actionsports clients here in Hawai‘i and throughout the world. He describes himself as “happily married, with two kids, a dog and a chicken.” He is a regular contributor to this magazine.

Into the Woods, p. 56 Photographer and conservationist Zach Pezzillo grew up on Maui with a deep appreciation for native species and the unique biodiversity found throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

He is currently spending seven months on Kure Atoll, the most remote of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the northernmost coral atoll in the world. He’s among a select group of eight who are restoring native habitat and removing invasive plants and marine debris for the monk seals, sea turtles and other rare and endangered marine species there. Their only resources are solar power and rain catchment; there is no Internet access. Communication is limited to satellite phone, and yes, he has his camera.

Kathy Muneno Mission Accomplished, Fear Overcome, p. 34 Kathy Muneno is the weekend news anchor for KHON2. She has worked as a reporter and anchor in Hawai‘i for more than 20 years.

Kathy is an award-winning writer and producer whose work has included “Hōkūle‘a: Her Farthest Journey.” She is also the recipient of a regional Emmy Award for the weekly series “SEARCH Hawai‘i: Where Food Meets Culture.”

“In May 1976, after a year of testing the canoe and recruiting crew members, the Höküle‘a crew gathered for departure from Honolua Bay in West Maui. There was the weighty realization of the mission’s enormity.

The reverend blessed each crew member and declared them ‘vikings of the sea.’”

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Ilima Loomis Maui en Plein Air, p. 48 Ilima Loomis has written about sunspots, dark matter, popsicle chefs, pet psychics and more for publications such as Popular Science, National Geographic Traveler, Nature and Islands. She also authored an awardwinning book on Hawaiian cowboys.

She wrote about edible flowers and local designer Kealopiko for the April 2017 issue of this magazine, for which she is a regular contributor.

Carla Tracy Hall of Fame, p. 16 As dining editor of The Maui News, Carla Tracy frequently judges food contests and is a familiar face at Maui events. A former Hawai‘i winner of a Society of Professional Journalism Award for long-form newspaper feature writing, she lives in Central Maui with her husband.

Grady Timmons A Legend on the Links, p. 66 Grady Timmons, communications director for The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, has written about Hawai‘i sports and other subjects for numerous local, national and international publications. He is the author of the awardwinning book “Waikiki Beachboy,” as well as “A Century of Golf: O‘ahu Country Club,” published in 2007.

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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 Wailea Alanui.

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 affords easy access to the beachfront resorts.

Throughout the year, the Wailea Coastal Path provides the ideal location for watching sunsets. The sun melts into the tranquil waters, where paddlers, swimmers and sailboats are a festive sight and dolphins may leap into view.

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Wailea Hall of Fame SUNSETS, DRINKS AND UMBRELLAS, “‘O’ my!” Media mogul Oprah Winfrey made a big splash in the land of Maui, posing on the cover of her “O” magazine on Wailea Beach fronting the Four Seasons Resort Maui. Her best friend, Gayle King, reported in an online video that Oprah is a fan of Ferraro’s Bar e Ristorante at Four Seasons there. And it’s no wonder, considering the view and cuisine.

“Who knows?” says King about Ferraro’s. “Maybe Oprah will come strolling in. She sometimes goes there for lunch. You never know.” That’s another thing to love about Maui: surprises.

Oprah also shared her philosophy for healthful living with more than 5,000 fans at Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului. The billionaire former talk-show host became a part-time resident in 2002 and owns land in Hāna as well as an organic farm in Kula— the latter with a private road that leads right to, where else, Wailea.

Singer-songwriter Dave Mason was “Feelin’ Alright” on his 71st birthday, when he celebrated with rock-star drummer pal Mick Fleetwood at Humble Market Kitchin by Roy Yamaguchi. The English rocker has performed with Traffic and Jimi Hendrix and has graced the stage at the Wailea Beach Resort—Marriott, Maui, too.

Yamaguchi is partners with Maui’s own “Supermensch” movie star, author and restaurateur Shep Gordon. At their grand opening fundraiser, guest hosts were Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, former NBA coach and player Don Nelson, champion surfer Kai Lenny and more. James Beard Award-winning Yamaguchi owns more than 30 restaurants worldwide.

Others dining at Humble Market Kitchin were “Son of a Son of a Sailor” Jimmy Buffett, Hollywood royalty Angelica Huston and pop artist Meghan Trainor.

With his trademark half-rock-star, half-Neanderthal mane and hilarious air, Santa Lucia Highlands winemaker Gary Pisoni presented an over-the-top dinner at Spago by Wolfgang Puck. Also spotted out and about at Four Seasons Resort Maui were actress Sharon Stone; sportscaster Chris Berman; singersongwriter Patrick Monahan of Bay Area rock band Train; NBA

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basketball player Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors; actor Stephen Amell, who stars as Oliver Queen in the TV show “Arrow”; and movie executive Dick Ebersol with his wife, activist actress Susan St. James.

Maui Film Festival at Wailea always boasts starry nights. Actor Pierce Brosnan accepted this year’s Pathfinder Award at the Celestial Cinema, looking as dapper as James Bond but in aloha attire. His wife, director Keely Shaye Brosnan, also presented her movie that evening.

Beloved actress Connie Britton received the Navigator Award under Wailea’s night sky, followed by “Beatriz at Dinner,” in which she stars with Salma Hayak and John Lithgow. Freida Pinto of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame dazzled the crowds at her Shining Star tribute. She’ll be in “Jungle Book,” due out in 2018.

Red-headed Scottish beauty Karen Gillan was gracious during a brief Hawaiian rain when she accepted her “Rising Star Award.”

The “Guardians of the Galaxy” actress will appear opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jack Black in “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” set for release in December. By the way, “Jumanji” was largely filmed in Hawai‘i, and Gillan adds that the cast had a blast working in the Islands. Speaking of movies, Grand Wailea Cultural Advisor Kainoa Horcajo starred in the movie “Kuleana,” written and directed by Maui’s Brian Kohne.

Also at Grand Wailea, its “Fire It Up!” was incendiary with the nation’s top pitmasters in its oceanfront Molokini Garden. Two “Top Chef ” veterans, John Tesar of Knife in Dallas and Sheldon Simeon of Tin Roof on Maui, grilled thick-slab bacon and whole fish, respectively. Sheldon hopes to open his next venture, a restaurant named Calabash, at The Shops at Wailea this year. Hometown BarB-Que owner-chef Billy Durney of the Big Apple impressed with wood-grilled Oaxacan chicken, and Hubert Keller of Fleur in Las Vegas pumped up the crowd as deejay. There was no limit to the festive mood, and whiskey and tequila drinks flowed. Ahh ... sunset .... umbrellas. Oh, my!

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Lou Weinstein’s staggering collection includes pre-1900s Hawaiian documents and books.

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“Well,” BEGAN BOOK COLLECTOR LOUIS WEINSTEIN,

settling into a comfy sofa in his Wailea home. “Obsession is a wonderful thing. It teaches you without studying, right? You don’t have to try to remember when you really love something.”

I was all ears. This was good. He continued: “I think obsessing on positive things relates to longevity. I think to really care about, to be passionate about, something you relate to—assuming it’s not a destructive thing—is essential to good emotional and physical health.

That’s not why I collect, but it contributes.”

Weinstein’s theory is indisputable; he is his own proof. His collection, a virtual museum of rare and collectible pre-1900s Hawaiian books and documents, emphasizes early voyages to the Hawaiian Islands and the impacts of whaling and missionaries in the 19th century. The home crackles with scholarship and knowledge and, unlike the usually austere archives and libraries, rings with laughter and humor. If the collection is fortuitously and stunningly organized, it’s because Weinstein’s wife, Laura, is a retired librarian. Rarely does one encounter such a pairing of interests, talents and personalities. Every book, document, map, engraving, yellowed letter or 1874 newsletter is in its proper place, accessible yet safe. Welcome and order prevail.

There are more than 1,500 books, pamphlets, letters, maps, diaries, photos, engravings and other items of Hawai‘i in the Weinstein collection, dating from 1779-1780 to circa 1900. “Ninety five percent of my holdings are from that period,” Weinstein explained.

“I have an additional 500 Hawaiian books that are 20th century and a lot of Bishop Museum publications and reference books. But my primary interest is really pre-1900 … My collection is actually all aspects of the history of Hawai‘i that are related to print. That means books, maps, manuscripts, visual things like photographs, and some artifacts.” Because artifacts are a “separate world,” Weinstein has not collected calabashes but does have some coins. And he has mostly avoided stamps, he says, for they require a separate field of expertise.

The walls of the Weinstein home are lined with bookshelves holding rare leather volumes with gilt spines. Centuries-old maps and priceless ephemera, some fragile to the touch, are filed and protected with great respect. It doesn’t take a bibliophile to know this is hallowed archival territory. There is “Voyages” by Louis Choris, published in Paris in 1822. There is one bookcase full of missionary books, including “My First Book of Reading and Spelling,” printed in Honolulu in 1845 by the American Mission Press. There is “The Hawaiian Guide

Book” by Henry Whitney, 1875, and “Hawaii” by the Hawaiian Promotion Committee, the first brochure to promote Hawai‘i, printed in 1903. The hand-tinted annotated slides of Ray Jerome Baker, noted photographic chronicler of Hawai‘i from 1910, when he moved to the Islands, are carefully stored visual treasures. Weinstein showed me the first edition of Lionel Walter Rothschild’s 1890s “The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands,” arguably one of the most valuable records on the bird life of Hawai‘i.

If Weinstein prefers pre-1900 materials, it’s “because the printings were smaller, the books are scarcer, they’re also valuable, and I have a greater knowledge of them,” he explained. Despite his lifelong passion for collecting, Weinstein said he had no intention of collecting Hawaiian material when they moved to Maui nine years ago. He may have been in the business of selling rare books and manuscripts, he said, but Hawaiian documents were not on his radar. “Partly I didn’t want to conflict with clients and their interests. I didn’t want to take the best things away from them that came through my company. So I let everything go.” What he let go of was Heritage Book Shop, Inc., his thriving business in L.A. What fueled the shop and everything that led up to it was Weinstein’s knowledge of printing and what he calls “antiquarian.”

That knowledge is encyclopedic, and it did not come overnight. He earned his collector’s chops early. By the time he and Laura moved to Wailea in 2008, they had visited Maui for 30 years. “I have more than instinct,” said Weinstein. “I have 45 years’ experience. In other words, that’s all I ever did. I’ve been in the book business my whole life.”

It began with the death of his estranged father in 1963, when Weinstein was 17 years old and working for the Deutsch and Shea Advertising Agency in New York. The news wasn’t too painful, he adds, because he had “hardly known the man” and they lived halfway across the country from each other. He and his brothers, who lived on the West Coast, were summoned to Gary, Indiana, where their father lived and died, and there they confronted his legacy: “Irving’s Trading Post—We Buy and Sell Everything.” Weinstein said it was a shop in a questionable neighborhood that recycled and sold clothing, tools, eyeglasses, costume jewelry, broken radios, clocks, bric-a-brac, old books and all manner of objects, even guns. In other words, everything.

Weinstein’s brothers, Ben and Jerry, returned to California with sufficient inventory to open their own shop. “Off they went with their fake jewelry, clothes with holes, toasters that hadn’t touched

(Opposite page) Books on extinct Hawaiian birds and plants, centuries-old maps and the first brochure promoting Hawai‘i, printed in 1903, are among Weinstein’s collectibles.

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bread in years, broken guns and miscellaneous objects we never could identify,” noted Weinstein in an article he wrote for the 1982 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Shortly thereafter, Weinstein joined his brothers, and the shop took on more books and documents: 7,000 volumes after seven months and 8,500 volumes after nine months.

For 10 years, Weinstein’s small used-book shop was a fixture on Hollywood Boulevard. He moved to La Cienega Boulevard and finally bought a building on Melrose Avenue in L.A. The building had been a mortuary, a 9,000-square-foot behemoth where the likes of Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and other celebrities had their funeral services. “I bought the mortuary, converted it into a bookshop and sold everything related to printing,” he said. He showed me photos; it looked like a cross between a museum and a church.

Heritage Book Shop was also a bindery and dealt in high-end printed books and manuscripts, publishing hundreds of catalogs of

rare books in specialized fields. One holiday season, its staggering offerings included the 1811 first edition of Jane Austen’s first book, “Sense and Sensibility,” published anonymously and in a contemporary binding, and one of only 750-1,000 copies printed. Price: $25,000. Volumes of rare lithographs, engravings, woodblock prints and signed first editions also went through Weinstein’s hands and graced the Heritage catalogs. Weinstein’s current collection even includes an early Hawaiian flag quilt from the short-lived Hawaiian Kingdom. One of his greatest finds is a letter, one of few in private hands, written by Father Damien de Veuster to Dr. Nathaniel Emerson. Damien was the priest-healer of Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients at Kalaupapapa, an isolated peninsula of Moloka‘i where the patients were confined. Emerson, born on O‘ahu, was a physician, writer and scholar of the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the letter, Damien, who lived and worked among the patients and eventually

(This page and opposite page) Bird plates from Lionel Rothschild’s “The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands,” London, 1893-1900.

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died of the disease, appeals to Emerson for more medicine to treat the afflicted. The letter is a powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship of the times, as well as its heroism.

While bibliophiles are a devoted lot, the things around them have changed. Libraries may be the book lover’s temple, observed Weinstein, but even they are not what they used to be. “Now it’s all computer information,” he noted, and books are being displaced by the digital world. “The University of Texas opened a $40-million library a few years ago. They didn’t have books, only computers,” he noted. “Young people are not brought up with books as a source of information anymore; people get everything through the computer.”

His children, now in their 20s and 30s, were surrounded by thousands of books, he said, “because they were brought up with books, and Laura read to them when they were younger. These changes may be an indication of where the world is going, and it’s also one of the reasons I decided to retire.”

When Weinstein closed Heritage, it was one of the largest rare book shops in the world, with 35 employees in L.A. and three binderies, in Bath, England; North Vancouver; and L.A. Today, as L. Weinstein Consultants, he continues to do appraisals of rare books and archival material, either for sale or donations to institutions.

Weinstein often donates Hawaiian material to institutions when it would complement their holdings.

While he may claim he’s retired, passion-driven specialists like Weinstein never really retire. The esteemed author and scholar David Forbes, whose literary treasures include “Encounters with Paradise,” “Hawaiian national Bibliography, 1780-1900” (Weinstein’s “Bible”) and, more recently, “Painting, Prints and Drawings of Hawaii from the Sam and Mary Cooke Collection,” is a friend and colleague of Weinstein’s. Weinstein calls him “probably the most knowledgeable person alive on Hawaiian history” and hopes to collaborate with him on future projects.

Meanwhile, there’s Nakahara “John” Manjiro, shipwrecked at 14 near a Japanese island, rescued by a U. S. whaler, and taken to New England in the 1840s. There he became the first Japanese to set foot on American soil and ride in an American vessel. Weinstein has a copy of Manjiro’s 19th-century manuscript detailing his life as shipbuilder, navigator, scholar, interpreter, and Tokyo University professor. He also commanded a trans-Pacific voyage and stopped in Hawai‘i on his way back to Japan. Would Weinstein’s son, a screenwriter in L.A., someday collaborate with his father on a film on Manjiro’s life? Weinstein paused, then lit up. Stay tuned.

(Opposite page) The engraving, from the 1798 “La Perouse, a Voyage Around the World,” shows one of the earliest views of Maui.

(This page) From Weinstein’s “Hawaiian Sketch Book” by Rear Admiral Lewis Kimberly (1887-90), commander of the Pacific Fleet.

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Mission Accomplished, Fear Overcome HÖKÜLE‘A’S VOYAGE IS COMPLETE, BUT IT’S ALSO JUST BEGINNING Story by KATHY MUNENO

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HE VOICE AT THE OTHER END was garbled and terrifying. “Gusting above gale force … We ripped a canvas. We are not going to Madagascar. Kind of crazy out here.” The voice called out orders to the crew, then resumed. “I’ll call you guys tomorrow morning.” Click.

That brief satellite phone message had come out of the darkness from nearly halfway around the world. It was from Nainoa Thompson, my husband, the father of our two children, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS), and captain of the open-air, double-hulled canoe Hōkūle‘a. At the helm of Hōkūle‘a, the first Polynesian voyaging canoe to circumnavigate the globe, Nainoa held a dozen lives in his hands. When Hōkūle‘a returned to Hawai‘i last June, they had been at sea for three years and covered more than 40,000 nautical miles. Hōkūle‘a has neither engine nor navigational instruments—in other words, she’s completely wind powered, guided by the stars, winds, currents, nature’s clues and, not least, the intense prowess of well-trained navigators and voyagers.

As the call came in that night from the unfamiliar, stormy seas of the western Indian Ocean, my thoughts churned. Really? Hōkūle‘a near Madagascar? Sailing to Africa? What were they thinking? Hōkūle‘a is a Polynesian canoe—not an Indian Ocean canoe or an African canoe—and she’s a long way from Polynesia.

I normally don’t worry about Nainoa on the ocean, but on this night I did.

The question was not about ability, but rather the mystery and unpredictability of Mother Nature—and knowing that she always prevails.

After a long, fitful night, dawn finally broke. He called, cool as a clam, as if amnesia had set in overnight. “Hi, how are you? How are the kids?”

And so it went. Another adventure along Mālama Honua, the voyage that has touched the child in Wai‘anae as much as the Dalai Lama; the family in Kīhei as much as the United Nations Secretary General; the businessman, scientist, chef, politician, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Jackson Browne, among many others.

Even now, months after its homecoming, the voyage continues to move people.

A VOYAGER, AN ASTRONAUT AND A DREAM Was it worth the risk? Yes. Next question: Why? The reason looks Nainoa in the eye every day and says, “I love you, Dad.” Our twins, 8 years old, are his constant reminder, the barometer by which he now measures, for him, the worth of the voyage, and of life. They are his children, but they also represent the children of this earth and children yet to be born—a constant tug at his heart, soul and mind. “Children have a right to live in a safe and healthy environment,” he says constantly.

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how a Tahitian woman next to him exhorted security to “get out of my way, that’s my canoe.” He added, “Everyone there felt a sense of the canoe belonging to them.”

Training for Mālama Honua began even before our children, now 8 years old, were born. There were statewide sails to engage communities and ask for their blessings and support. When Hōkūle‘a departed for Tahiti in 2014, our then five-year-old children stood waist deep in the water and waved at their father, the captain. It was Nainoa’s first major voyage as a father, and this goodbye his most difficult.

Hōkūle‘a’s solar panels powered communications equipment, enabling schoolchildren across the state to track her every move and learn about other cultures and their oceanic and environmental legacies. Occasionally our children could even see and speak with their father from the classroom.

It was in Aotearoa (New Zealand) that my children and I first met up with Hōkūle‘a. In Auckland Harbor, where Hōkūle‘a was moored offshore, a sea of children—hundreds of them—waited patiently to shake the hand of every crew member, community leader and voyage supporter from Hawai‘i. It was an unforgettable and moving sight: child after child, our future, joining in the promise of renewal and compassion. On the beach were hundreds of educational leaders representing 140 organizations in Hawai‘i and around the world who were signatories to a document called “The Promise to Children.” An initiative of the voyage, it reads in part: “We believe that by inspiring children to explore, discover and learn about island Earth, they will navigate the future of humanity toward vitality, renewal and compassion … We, the undersigned, join the Worldwide Voyage through our classrooms and educational advocacy, providing winds in the sails of Hōkūle‘a. … ” The partnership, the document continued, was unprecedented in Hawai‘i’s history.

With each country came unique new experiences and exchanges.

Hōkūle‘a voyaged to Australia, then Bali, then Mauritius, each time encountering new wildlife, people and customs. There was a good measure of humor, too. Nainoa sent personal photos of their new friends: a sea snake they passed and a booby bird that had found a momentary perch on his head. I sent a photo of our smiling daughter after she lost her front tooth; Nainoa responded with his own, a “sympathy” shot of him smiling broadly, his front tooth covered with a piece of black nori (seaweed).

In South Africa, the crew presented to Archbishop Desmond Tutu a peace quilt made by Hawai‘i’s children. By the time my family joined Nainoa and Hōkūle‘a in New York City, they had completed their Atlantic Ocean leg, including ports from Brazil to Washington, D.C. In New York, another body of water awaited

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“You’ll never know how beautiful our island Earth is until you’ve seen it from space.”

Lt. Col. Lacy Veach, who planted the seed. Pinky was an Army veteran wounded in France, a social worker, a trustee at Kamehameha Schools and the president of PVS, the man who lifted the community when things didn’t go as planned and kept a steady eye on the goal.

Lacy, the astronaut, was Nainoa’s hero and best friend, a fellow alumnus of Punahou School in Honolulu. “You’ll never know,” he told Nainoa and his father, “how beautiful our island Earth is until you’ve seen it from space.” Lacy’s roots in and love for Hawai‘i ran so deep he once “smuggled” on the space shuttle an adze made of stone from Mauna Kea and passed down through his family. Once a year, Nainoa and Lacy would meet on the slopes of Mauna Kea and camp for one night. They would each come with a dream, then stare at the heavens, share their dream and devise how to make it come true.

Lacy saw Hawai‘i as the answer, a global example of how to live well on an island. Eventually that became the foundation of Hōkūle‘a’s worldwide voyage, Mālama Honua: to care for island Earth.

But that was 25 years ago, a time when two visionaries dared to dream that a 62-foot-long, 40-foot-wide double-hulled canoe could sail not just the Pacific, but the world’s oceans with a global mission.

Hōkūle‘a had been built just 17 years prior on what her designer and PVS co-founder, the late Herb Kane, called a “quiet dream.” Kane reminded us that the disappearance of voyaging hundreds of years earlier had taken with it ancient navigational skills. Culturally, said Kane, “people who have lost their past become lost people. Hawaiians were overwhelmed by modern culture, to the point of forgetting.” But, he added, it was all waiting to be reawakened.

Artist and historian Kane, anthropologist Ben Finney and waterman Tommy Holmes sought to help uplift Hawaiians in their own homeland, and to prove that Polynesians could, in fact, intentionally sail to Hawai‘i and back.

They formed PVS, built Hōkūle‘a, and launched her in 1975.

In May 1976, after a year of testing the canoe and recruiting crew members, the Hōkūle‘a crew gathered for departure from Honolua Bay in West Maui. There was the weighty realization of the mission’s enormity. The reverend blessed each crew member and declared them “vikings of the sea.”

According to Sam Ka‘ai of Maui, Native Hawaiian scholar, artist and master wood-carver, Honolua Bay was chosen because of its proximity to the Pailolo Channel between Maui and Moloka‘i. He called it the “pound-until-crazy channel.” Billy Richards, who was on Hōkūle‘a’s first voyage to Tahiti, said the crew and canoe performed well in those first brutal 48 hours at sea.

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(This page, clockwise from top left) Kekaulike Mar hunkers down with his solar-powered device; card games help pass the time; Poita Puroto showers in sea water; Gary Yuen and Lohiau Paoa enjoy a meal; Jenna Ishii reads the signs while Mark Ellis observes; Snake Ah Hee and David Komine work the ropes; Heidi Guth in her bunk; center, J-Boy Sanada proudly displays the day’s catch.

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Captain Nainoa Thompson in his raw, emotional speech at the June 17 homecoming, in which he acknowledged heroes past and present.

EDDIE WENT / Immortal Waterman ON JUNE 17, HOMECOMING DAY, after the welcome ceremonies and rituals were completed, Nainoa Thompson walked to the podium in the white tent at Magic Island. The silence was long and painful, and Nainoa wore his discomfort without shame. “I’m going to be completely inadequate,” he said finally. “I’m going to run out of time and have to sit down. And I think back to the moment when I was never good enough to express gratitude to the many who have embraced us the way you have.

“It never sank in until I came into the channel and looked around.” Tens of thousands lined the shore, and canoes by the dozen—perhaps hundreds—bobbed in the ocean in greeting. At the podium, Nainoa spoke of the more than 300 who had taken part in the voyage, and how inadequate he felt as the lone figure representing so much giving, so much sacrifice, so much risk and commitment.

Then he mentioned Eddie. Eddie Aikau: the heroic waterman, born on Maui, the first lifeguard at O‘ahu’s big-wave Waimea Bay, the hero who rescued more than 500 from treacherous surf and was a surfing champion himself. “Eddie Would Go”—the ubiquitous slogan on bumper stickers, t-shirts, surfboards and equipment the world over—is the waterman’s mantra, a timeless tribute to the heroism of a man who died while saving others. In 1978, when Hōkūle‘a capsized south of Moloka‘i, crew member Eddie paddled toward Lānaī to get help. He had a life jacket, but it got in the way of his surfing, so he removed it. He was 31, and he was never seen again.

But Eddie Aikau has achieved a kind of immortality. He is felt, and strongly, on every Hōkūle‘a voyage, and when watermen ponder the risks of the sea.

“At the times when we were most afraid, we could look to him to find courage,” said Nainoa.

“Eddie came the whole way. Eddie was the most important crew member we had on board.”

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“This is a testament to the power of island people,” he declared.

In Samoa, he had given the crew a message in a bottle—his commitment to care for the oceans—to carry with them to New York. In New York, Nainoa returned the bottle to him.

“We can be inspired by the example of this wonderful vessel called Hōkūle‘a,” Ban Ki Moon continued. “This small boat braved rough tides and tough storms. International negotiations were also very stormy, but we both reached our destination. We have the Paris Agreement, and you are here. Thank you very much. We use respect for indigenous cultures as our compass.”

SACRED PLACES AND THE WISDOM OF PROTOCOL In the Galapagos Islands, seals sunbathed at the edge of the hotel pool and humongous iguanas walked the streets. Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a notoriously difficult leg, lay ahead. Nainoa was to captain that sail, but flew home instead due to the unexpected death of my mother.

The sudden change of plans created the opening for Archie Kalepa, a Maui lifeguard and waterman, to step up to the helm and for the first time captain the canoe he loves and reveres. The change also allowed the younger generation of navigators to move to the fore without their mentor, Nainoa.

Hōkūle‘a entered the familiar waters of Tahiti en route to Taputapuatea, the sacred marae (temple) of a small French Polynesian island named Raiatea. Historians consider Raiatea the ancient center of Polynesian culture, religions and politics, a place of strong spiritual power. It’s where voyagers sought permission and blessings for their travels, as Hōkūle‘a did, to great ceremony and protocol.

In late April, only 2,700-miles separated Hōkūle‘a from her Hawai‘i home. As Hōkūle‘a prepared for her final leg home from Tahiti, history was made again.

Throughout, Hōkūle‘a’s crew had ranged from 17 to 70 years old—from barely out of high school to grandfathers and kūpuna, joined together in a life of salt, close quarters, horizon, stars and the unknown, some away from their families for months at a time.

On her return, for the first time, Hōkūle‘a was in the hands of an all-female leadership: Captain Pomai Bertelmann; lead navigator Ka‘iulani Murphy; and Haunani Kane, Pua Lincoln and Kala Tanaka, the three female apprentice navigators on board.

Since her return last June, Hōkūle‘a has been voyaging throughout Hawai‘i, this time in gratitude for the community’s support. While some of the PVS founders and architects are gone, they will live forever in Hōkūle‘a and its mission. Archie Kalepa is one of the perpetuators of the founders’ vision. Bringing the voyage full circle, he spearheaded the planting of thousands of koa tree seedlings in the ahupua‘a (land division) of Honolua, the site of Hōkūle‘a’s maiden departure in 1976.

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them: the Hudson River. As Hōkūle‘a navigated the busy waterway, Hawai‘i’s students chanted their welcome and Native Americans drummed and called rhythmically.

A few days later, on World Oceans Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, who had sailed on Hōkūle‘a in Samoa, joined a dockside ceremony across from the U.N.

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Archie Kalepa’s detailed log entries and hand-drawn charts are now part of an important cultural and navigational archive.

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Above, Sam Ka‘ai's hand-carved male ki‘i, on the back starboardside manu of the canoe; at right, Nainoa Thompson ponders the wonders of the universe. Without navigational instruments, the crew relies on the sun, moon, clouds, fish, currents, winds and atmospheric conditions for voyaging information.

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Today a lei of voyaging canoes unites the Hawaiian Islands: Nāmāhoe on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i Loa and Hikianalia on O‘ahu, Mo‘okiha O Pi‘ilani on Maui, and Hōkū Alaka‘i and Makali‘i on Hawai‘i island. Our voyagers and navigators have touched Aotearoa (New Zealand), Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and countless islands in between, as well as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the marine national monument named Papahānaumokuākea. From the farthest reaches of the Atlantic to the west coast of the United States, from Micronesia to the shores of Japan, where hundreds surged to the dock, Hōkūle‘a has spread a message of peace.

“There’s some sense that it’s more than the canoe, it’s more than the voyage, it’s more about some common nerve within us as human beings,” Nainoa told me, “that we want to gravitate to something that is meaningful, and that the barriers and differences of cultures are broken down somehow. It raises the question: If Hōkūle‘a has this kind of impact in Japan, why would it not have the same impact in a country called South Africa? It starts to raise the question about island Earth, and our canoe, the only one we have, this special blue planet of life and the immensity of the universe.”

The completion of this voyage signals a new and nascent era for Mālama Honua. In another voyage initiative, the Promise to Pae‘äina, 24 environmental, sustainability and ocean advocate organizations have pledged to protect the ocean. For the first time, coordinator Eric Co explains, all marine monitoring data have been pulled into a single portal to better support ocean management. Environmental and education groups have created a first-ever guide for children in Hawai‘i who wish to make the ocean their profession. There are internships, mentorships, volunteer information and more. A website is under development. All of this enables the voyage to continue long after Hōkūle‘a’s return. What we are seeing, says Co, is “environmentalists as humanitarians.”

My husband has often questioned whether the voyage has had its intended impact. As a Hawai‘i journalist, I have seen it and heard it and know that a new language, the language of voyaging, has found its place on island Earth. At its core are exploration, nature, world peace and a shared humanity. As a Hawai‘i judge told me, “It shows children what is possible.”

Now, in the safety of our home, my husband completes his assessment of that stormy night off Madagascar. “Oh yeah,” he says.

“It was so bad that when I called the Madagascar harbormaster to say we wouldn’t be coming in, he said, ‘Good, because we just closed.’” He gestures broadly, describing the huge waves from one direction, currents from another, waves stacking and crashing on the canoe. Then, with utter calm, he adds, “You know, the canoe wasn’t built for that!”

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Maui en Plein Air FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, THESE ARTISTS HAVE GATHERED WEEKLY TO CAPTURE MAUI’S BEAUTY ON CANVAS Story by ILIMA LOOMIS

Photography by RACHEL OLSSON

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(Previous spread) Jacaranda tree by Pamela Neswald; Neswald painting in Kula.

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when the first easel pops into view on a rocky outcropping overlooking the lapping waves of South Maui’s Mākena Landing. Soon another artist arrives, scouting the perfect spot under a tree before unpacking her paints, brushes and palette. By the time the sunseekers show up for their day at the beach and a flotilla of snorkelers has launched into the water, the shoreline is dotted with a dozen or more painters immersed in their work.

Their Facebook group is dubbed the Plein Air Painters of Maui, but to call them an organization may be a bit of an overstatement. There isn’t really a membership, nobody’s in charge, and they don’t have meetings. The one thing they do is paint—outdoors, every Wednesday, somewhere on Maui. And they’ve been doing it for more than 20 years.

While artists have painted outdoors for centuries, the practice of painting en plein air was popularized in modern times by artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Using a spontaneous style and quick brush strokes to capture a shadow before it lengthened, or a cloud before it blew away, they aimed to depict not a meticulous, photographic likeness of the landscapes before them, but their impression of the scene at a particular moment in time. That style that became known as Impressionism.

“The light is always changing—that’s what the challenge is,” says painter Debbie von Tempsky, perching in the shade of a kiawe tree as she blends blues and whites on her palette to create just the right shade. Just since she started this painting a few hours ago, the shimmery dark of the water after sunrise has brightened to a cheerful azure. It’s beautiful, but not the same.

A lifelong artist, von Tempsky had been a watercolorist who did most of her work from her home studio. Then, about a decade ago, a friend gave her several squirts of oil paints and invited her out to paint waterfalls in Hāna. Painting from life, in a new medium, von Tempsky was out of her element but definitely intrigued. “The waterfall just turned out all white,” she recalls with a laugh.

After taking a workshop in plein air painting, she accepted an invitation from the teacher to paint with her in France for a week. “Ever since then, that was it,” she says. “It became my love.”

The group was already well-established by the time von Tempsky joined. Founding member Jack Hamilton recalls that sometime around 1995, he and a handful of other artists had signed up for a class with the longtime Maui painter George Allan, meeting every Wednesday morning at different locations around the island to paint with him. The group enjoyed its weekly sojourns so much they didn’t want to stop. “At the last class, I just yelled out, ‘Let’s keep doing this every Wednesday!’”

Hamilton recalls. “That’s how it started.”

The group’s “members” range from professionals to first-timers, and they come and go. Over the years, some artists have moved away or taken up other styles of painting, while new painters have joined. There are some snowbirds who come when they’re on the island, and even some visitors who show up to paint on

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“Critiquing is really essential to any painter, because you lose your eye after awhile.”

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ENJOY THE VIEW Check out local and visiting plein air painters at these upcoming shows: • “George and Friends,” celebrating the 80th birthday of celebrated Maui plein air painter George Allan, along with many of the local artists he has influenced, Dec. 2-Jan. 7, Viewpoints Gallery. viewpointsgallerymaui.com

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• Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational. This weeklong festival, featuring 25 professional artists from Hawai‘i and the mainland, includes three “paint-outs,” five art sales and a lecture, as well as a reception, gala and youth event.

Feb. 17-25 at locations around West Maui. mauipleinairpainting.org

vacation. Members post a schedule of upcoming locations on the Plein Air Painters of Maui Facebook page, and anyone is welcome. But whether two people or 20 show up to paint, the group has met almost every week, rain or shine, since its inception, Hamilton says. “That’s more than a thousand times painting together, with different people coming and different people going,” he says.

Longtime Maui artist Joe Fletcher notes that the camaraderie is part of the reason he keeps coming back to the Wednesday group. “Being an older guy, I get a bit of a later start, but when I do get there, there are your friends,” he says. “It’s wonderful. I’m kind of grandfathered in at this point, and people just move their chairs and let me scoot in when I get there late.” After so many years, those bonds extend beyond painting. When Fletcher was in the hospital for major surgery about two years ago, one of his plein air friends showed up during visiting hours with a cup of his favorite Starbucks coffee.

The group plans a getaway to Hāna each September, where they paint the rugged scenery of East Maui by day and camp together in the cabins of Wai‘ānapanapa each night. Fletcher says artists understand each other in a way that others don’t, and he loves being with a group that doesn’t get tired of talking about painting.

“We can go on forever,” he says. “We don’t get enough sleep in Hāna, because we stay up half the night talking, and then we want to get up and go paint.” The trip is capped with a show at the Hana Coast Gallery.

Perched on a bluff overlooking Mākena Landing, Fletcher swipes a bit of crimson from a craggy, golf-ball-sized glob of paint. While some of the other artists have squeezed out modest dabs for the morning’s work, Fletcher’s palette is loaded with a generous helping. What he doesn’t use today will still be fresh when he heads out to paint again tomorrow. Working almost every day, Fletcher completes between 300 and 400 paintings a year. He gets up to stretch his legs and ambles over to chat with another artist as she gives him a wave. “Coming along!” he smiles encouragingly as he peers over her shoulder.

Getting the chance to rub paint-smudged elbows with professional artists like Fletcher, and to develop a network of experienced peers, is part of what attracts Raleigh Timmins to the group. Stepping back from her easel in a shady spot under a kiawe tree, Timmins introduces herself by offering a paint-free pinky finger to shake. “I’m down at the bottom of the learning curve, which is a great place to be,” she says. A former homemaker, Timmins had been painting in watercolor when she learned about the plein air group and began meeting up with them on Wednesdays in about 2005.

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“Paint only allows you to have a certain scope, while nature’s colors are unlimited.”

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(This page) Doug Mitchell, top, at a Keokea paint-out; Jack Hamilton paints in Kula. (Opposite page) Jacaranda tree by Jack Hamilton.

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paints and canvases to use. They also helped her make the leap to oil painting about two years ago. “It really helped push me along,” she says.

Timmins recalls a stormy day when she and some friends escaped the weather by retreating to paint in Pukalani. Suddenly the clouds moved aside, the sun came out, and she moved quickly to capture the clear view of the West Maui Mountains.

Soon enough the moment had passed, and she slowed down, stepping back to think about adding some finishing touches—maybe the patch of trees she had overlooked in the foreground—but her friends stopped her. “They said, stop! You’re done!” she recalls. Sure enough, when she took the painting home that night, she realized that it captured the moment perfectly, and didn’t need any more work. “Critiquing is really essential to any painter,” she says, “because you lose your eye after a while.”

Painting from life is often about what you leave out, says Fletcher, who learned from his grandfather, a landscape artist. “We would paint on location, and he taught me that nature gives you far more than you can use. It’s editing. Paint only allows you to have a certain scope, while nature’s colors are unlimited.” Fletcher has found that to hold true on Maui, where he especially loves to paint old buildings and small towns.

Even though he has painted hundreds of street scenes in the towns of Makawao and Lahaina, he says he never runs out of new subjects. “All you have to do is move your easel 50 feet and change direction, and you have a different painting,” he observes.

The gathering of artists has brought a festive atmosphere to Mākena Landing, and throughout the morning a steady stream of tourists, beachgoers and excited children pick their way across the rocky shoreline to check out the paintings in progress.

Far from being a nuisance, many of the plein air painters say that interacting with passersby is one of the things they love about painting in public. Not only does it often lead to a sale, it’s an opportunity to share their passion.

“I really enjoy meeting people and talking about art and where they’re from,” says von Tempsky, who used to work in customer service and missed the human interaction after retirement. “You meet all kinds of people, and the kids are just wonderful,” agrees Fletcher. “I love the stories and the questions the kids ask.”

As the sun climbs higher in the sky, the blue shadows tuck themselves tighter and tighter under the kiawe trees. One at a time, the artists step back to take a last look at their paintings, make a few finishing touches and then carefully put the wet canvases away and begin to pack up their things. Some have completed their paintings in the field, while others will take them back to the studio to finish from photographs or memory, or to use as models for larger, more detailed works. But it won’t be long before these artists are together again, painting a different view of Maui en plein air.

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THE MAGNIFICENT AND VARIED APPEAL OF HAWAIIAN WOOD Photography by ZACH PEZZILLO

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Trees. How marvelous they are, sprouting from tiny seedlings into majestic, multidimensional spectacles that provide shade, shelter birds, animals and people, and provide oxygen for life and beauty for the soul.

Zach Pezzillo penetrates the inner life of trees to discover a world of mystery and luminosity. The partnership of nature and artistry unfolds in these pages, a world of utility and transcendent beauty.

Wood turners savor the mystery of not knowing what will emerge with the next turn of the lathe.

(Previous spread) Dennis Holzer shapes koa (Acacia koa) into liquid form; and the luminosity of the grain is revealed.

(This page) From left, monkeypod (Albizia saman) bark, mango (Mangifera indica) wood and mango bark.

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(Above and right) Olopua (Nestegis sandwicensis) bark is a river of wood; a view of Dennis Holzer’s table.

(Opposite page) Olopua’s elephant-colored bark hides a multitude of secrets.

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“IF YOU WANT TO PLAN FOR TEN YEARS, GROW KOA. IF YOU WANT TO PLAN FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS, TEACH THE CHILDREN.”

“If you want to plan for one year,” goes an old Hawaiian saying, “plant kalo (taro).

If you want to plan for ten years, grow koa. If you want to plan for one hundred years, teach the children.”

The woods of Hawai‘i have been carved into voyaging canoes, vessels for sacred ceremonies, home accessories and works of art. Regeneration efforts throughout Hawai‘i today engage children and their kūpuna in planting trees for future generations.

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(Opposite page) Dennis Holzer’s sculpture.

(This page) Dennis Holzer imbues koa with the liquidity of a wave, left, and a view of koa with the luster of amber.

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A Legend On the Links

Brenda Rego's long and illustrious career in golf is documented in countless articles and tributes in local publications.

BRENDA REGO IS INDUCTED INTO THE HAWAI‘I GOLF HALL OF FAME

By GRADY TIMMONS Photography by DANA EDMUNDS

LAST FEBRUARY, a group of 15 Wailea employees and golfers flew to O‘ahu to attend a dinner honoring one of their own. The occasion was the annual Ho‘olaulea Golf Awards Banquet, where Brenda Rego, head professional at Wailea’s Blue Golf Course, was being inducted into the Hawai‘i Golf Hall of Fame.

The honor was well-deserved. Rego was a champion college and amateur golfer who made it all the way to the LPGA Tour before becoming the state’s first female Class A PGA professional.

She came to Wailea as an assistant professional in 1998. When she was named head professional at Wailea Blue in 2008, she was the only female head golf professional in the state.

Rego grew up in Kunia, a small plantation community set against the Wai‘anae Mountains in central O‘ahu. She came from a golf family and had three brothers who also became professionals. Competing against them helped make her a dominant female player.

During her career, she won every major women’s amateur event in the state and captured the Women’s Southern Intercollegiate and the Hawai‘i State Women’s Open. She competed twice in the U.S. Women’s Open and played the LPGA Tour for two years before returning to Hawai‘i and making Maui her home.

The Hall of Fame induction ceremony began with a video presentation of Rego’s life in golf and featured testimonials from several of her female contemporaries, all of whom spoke not just about her golfing prowess but about her personal warmth and generous character.

After Rego gave her acceptance speech, her Wailea supporters led the audience in a standing ovation. “It’s an honor to become a member of the Hawai‘i Golf Hall of Fame,” she says. “Golf has been good to me. I would like to thank all those who helped me along the way, especially my family here at Wailea.”

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Dine, shop and explore the sights of Wailea

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[ T H E G U I D E ] EXPLORE

WA I L E A P R O P E RT I E S

The Gentle, Calming Life of the South Shore

ANDAZ MAUI WAILEA RESORT www.andazmaui.com

FAIRMONT KEA LANI www.fairmont.com/kealani

FOUR SEASONS RESORT MAUI AT WAILEA www.fourseasons.com/maui

GRAND WAILEA www.grandwailea.com

HOTEL WAILEA www.hotelwailea.com

RESIDENCE INN MAUI AT WAILEA ResidenceInnMauiWailea.com

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SOUTH SHORE LIVING TENDS to exceed expectations. Yes, the

sunsets are spectacular and the weather is reliably pleasant. Yes, the ocean is just steps away. The landscaping, amenities and Coastal Path are key ingredients in the recipe for wellness, but there are countless other qualities that make this an exemplary community.

The Wailea lifestyle is also expressed through the luxury hotels, villas, vacation rentals, condos and town homes of this South Maui resort. And the amenities: Within minutes of any Wailea residence or room, there are shops, spas, restaurants and the full range of social, cultural and recreational offerings.

Three 18-hole championship golf courses—the Emerald, Gold and Blue—draw golfers from around the world. Tennis buffs have their day too, at the Wailea Tennis Club and its 11 courts. And ocean lovers need only walk a few steps to sink their toes in the silky sands of Wailea beaches. Year-round watersports, from snorkeling and swimming to kayaking and stand-up paddling, are among the resort’s attractions in a landscape of green, blue and sunset red.

Romance and wellness are everywhere, and not just for a generation or two. Multiple generations enjoy Wailea’s setting and amenities for weddings, honeymoons and bridal parties. The finest spas, wellness programs and beauty programs in Hawai‘i are located here, appealing to all ages, demographics and generations.

Villas, residences, hotels and multiple types of accommodations are sprinkled along the five white-sand beaches along South Maui, where a walk along the Coastal Path pleasantly traverses the beaches.

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WAILEA BEACH RESORT— MARRIOTT, MAUI www.waileamarriott.com

WAILEA GATEWAY CENTER http://wailea-gateway.com

WAILEA GOLF CLUB www.waileagolf.com

WAILEA RESORT ASSOCIATION www.wailearesortassociation.com

WAILEA TENNIS CENTER www.waileatennis.com

WAILEA TOWN CENTER www.waileatowncenter.info

WAILEA VILLAGE CENTER

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AMA BAR & GRILL Fairmont Kea Lani

MONKEYPOD KITCHEN Wailea Gateway Center

808.875.7710 / Lu‘au Show

808.891.2322 / Handcrafted

HUMBLE MARKET KITCHIN

MORIMOTO MAUI

Wailea Beach Resort

Andaz Maui Wailea Resort

808.879.4655 / Seafood / Sushi

808.243.4766 / Japanese

808.875.4100 / Hawai‘i Modern

HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA‘A

MULLIGANS ON THE BLUE

BISTRO MOLOKINI

Grand Wailea

100 Kaukahi St.

808.875.1234 / Hawai‘i Seasonal

808.874.1131 / Irish/American

Grand Wailea

808.875.1234 / Island Cuisine

ISLAND GOURMET MARKETS

NICK’S FISHMARKET MAUI

BOTERO LOUNGE

The Shops at Wailea

Fairmont Kea Lani

808.874.5055 / Deli/Sushi/Market

808.879.7224 / Modern/Seafood

Grand Wailea

808.875.1234 / Cocktails

KA‘ANA KITCHEN

THE PINT & CORK

BUMBYE BEACH BAR

Andaz Maui Wailea Resort

The Shops at Wailea

808.573.1234 / Hawai‘i Regional

808.727.2038 / Gastropub

Andaz Maui Wailea Resort

808.573.1234 / Cocktails

KAPA BAR & GRILL

PITA PARADISE

CAFÉ KULA MARKETPLACE

Wailea Beach Resort

Wailea Gateway Center

808.879.1922 / American/Pacific Rim

808.879.7177 / Mediterranean

808.875.1234 / Gourmet Market

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CAFFÉ CIAO BAKERY & MARKET

Fairmont Kea Lani

THE RESTAURANT AT HOTEL WAILEA

Fairmont Kea Lani

808.875.2210 / Plantation Era

Hotel Wailea

808.875.4100 / Gourmet Market

LAPPERT’S HAWAII

CHEESEBURGER GRILLE & TAP ROOM

The Shops at Wailea

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE

808.879.1711 / Ice Cream

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The Shops at Wailea

LEHUA LOUNGE

Grand Wailea

808.879.2224 / Island Inspired

808.874.8880 / Steaks/Seafood

808.874.8990 / American

Andaz Maui Wailea Resort

SPAGO

THE COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF

808.573.1234 / Cocktails

Four Seasons Resort

The Shops at Wailea

LOBBY LOUNGE

808.879.2999 / Pacific Rim

808.891.2045 / Coffee/Pastries

Four Seasons Resort

STARBUCKS

DUO

808.874.8000 / Cocktails

Wailea Beach Resort

Four Seasons Resort

LONGHI'S

808.874.7981 / Coffee Shop

808.874.8000 / Steak/Seafood

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SUBWAY

FABIANI'S WAILEA

808.891.8883 / Mediterranean

Wailea Gateway Center

Wailea Gateway Center

LUANA

808.875.7827 / Sandwich/Deli

808.874.1234 / Pizza/Pasta

Fairmont Kea Lani

TE AU MOANA

FERRARO’S BAR E RISTORANTE

808.875.4100 / Cocktails

Wailea Beach Resort

Four Seasons Resort

MANOLI'S PIZZA COMPANY

877.827.2740 / Lu‘au Show

808.874.8000 / Italian

100 Wailea Ike Drive

TOMMY BAHAMA

GANNON'S

808.874.7499 / Italian

The Shops at Wailea

Wailea Gold Course

THE MARKET MAUI

808.875.9983 / American/Caribbean

808.875.8080 / Hawai‘i Regional

Wailea Gateway Center

VOLCANO GRILL & BAR

GRAND DINING ROOM MAUI

808.879.2433 / Gourmet Pantry

Grand Wailea

Grand Wailea

MATTEO’S OSTERIA

808.875.1234 / American

808.875.1234 / American

Wailea Town Center

WAILEA KITCHEN & TAP

HONOLULU COFFEE CO.

808.891.8466 / Italian

Wailea Tennis Club

The Shops at Wailea

MOKAPU MARKET

808.875.6630 / Coffee Shop

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808.878.3663 / Comfort Food

Andaz Maui Wailea Resort

WHALERS GENERAL STORE

808.573.1234 / 24-Hour Market

The Shops at Wailea

808.891.2039 / Deli

Every November and May, Wailea restaurants present their finest offerings in prix-fixe menus for just $29, $39, $49 and $59 per person.

Restaurant Week Wailea: November 5-11, 2017 May 20-26, 2018 November 4-10, 2018 www.restaurantweekwailea.com

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HONUA‘ULA LU‘AU Grand Wailea

SAVOUR Make every moment Grand.

Hawai‘i Seasonal Cuisine Chef de Cuisine Mike Lofaro

3850 Wailea Alanui, Wailea, HI 96753 800.888.6100

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OUR CENTERS FOR SHOPPING Haute couture. Art. Locally made gifts. Coffee and sunshine. These retail centers don't miss a beat.

Shopping at Wailea

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

Over 70 shops, galleries, restaurants, two coffee houses and an ice cream shop are the tip of the iceberg at The Shops at Wailea.

WAILEA TOWN CENTER North on Ike Place off Ike Drive just above Wailea Alanui.

The Wailea Town Center offers a range of services and hidden treasures, including a full-service bank, restaurant and a wine shop.

WAILEA GATEWAY CENTER Highway and Wailea Ike Drive.

The two-story Gateway is mauka from the coast, with unique peeks of the ocean and the West Maui Mountains. Chocolate, a day spa, coffee and pastries reign here, along with restaurants.

WAILEA VILLAGE CENTER 100 Wailea Ike Drive

This center includes Urgent Care, Manoli’s Pizza Company, Water Lily Maui, the Wailea Blue Golf Course, and other services.

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At the intersection of Pi‘ilani

Longhi’s Ko’olina 7:30 am -10:00 pm 92-161 Waipahe Place Kapolei, HI 96707 808.671.8887

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Andaz Maui Wailea Resort 3550 Wailea Alanui 808.573.1234 ‘ÄWILI SPA AND SALON

Along with custom-blended scrubs, lotions, oils and body butters, the spa boutique includes fashions by local designers.

MOKAPU MARKET

Prepared takeaway foods include pastries, paninis, pizza, gelato and locally crafted beverages, all in a 24-hour convenience store with style.

PACIFIC DREAM PHOTOGRAPHY

A photo studio on property captures the special moments of your visit.

Fairmont Kea Lani 4100 Wailea Alanui 808.875.4100 CAFFE CIAO BAKERY & MARKET

This is a one-stop-shop for tasty treats and foodie gifts, from gourmet made-on-Maui food products to a wide variety of unique souvenirs, including specialty kitchen items and signature Kea Lani jams, teas and condiments. From prepared foods to go, to deluxe pastries, chocolates and wines, it’s an epicurean oasis.

LE SURF WAILEA

The boutique’s thoughtful selection of women’s, men’s and children’s products is designed to meet wide-ranging resort needs. Favorite and familiar designers share their exclusive offerings, and newly discovered brands make a splashy entrance.

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SHO P S O N P R O P ERTY

VOTED TOP 100 BEST

Outdoor Dining Restaurants in America

808-875-8080 GANNONSRESTAURANT.COM

100 Wailea Golf Club Drive. Wailea. Maui (at the Wailea Gold & Emerald Golf Courses) Continental Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Happy Hour. Visit our website for complete menu, hours & reservations.

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PACIFIC DREAM PHOTOGRAPHY

This is the on-the-spot memory maker on property, with a studio and professionals on hand.

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 3900 Wailea Alanui 808.874.8000

accessories and apparel are included in this well-thought-out selection for men, women and kids.

HILDGUND JEWELRY

WILLOW STREAM SPA

22 KNOTS

Recently voted Hawai‘i’s top spa by Travel + Leisure magazine, the state-ofthe-art, 9,000-square-foot spa includes a retail boutique with Jane Iredale mineral-based cosmetics, Strange Invisible Perfumes, Smith & Cult, OPI nail polish, Shu Uemura Art of Hair and the luxury skincare of Kerstin Florian.

NuFace and Light Stim devices are standouts in cosmetic technology, and there’s a selection of locally made jewelry, activewear and loungewear.

Fine jewelry, high-end fashion and beach-to-evening style make a strong sartorial statement here, with iconic labels—Missoni, Lanvin, Pucci included.

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Chic, comfortable and exclusive printed tees, rash guards by James Perse and designer beachwear with flair are among the boutique’s finds. Shoes,

Luxury gems, diamonds and unique designs are the signature of Hildgund’s, long considered one of Hawai‘i’s premier jewelers.

PORTS

Travel essentials—sundries, logowear, snacks and gift ideas—are covered in this thoughtful, colorful selection.

THE SPA

A selection of active wear, body products, guest treatments and an extensive line of scrubs, sunscreens and skin care items make this a wellness nexus.

TOWN AND COUNTRY MAUI

Here’s where you’ll find fragrant, fresh and exotic blooms and arrangements, suitable for any occasion.

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The Grand Wailea Shops and Galleries 3850 Wailea Alanui 808.875.1234

MAKANA, GIFTS WITH ALOHA

Makana means “gift” in Hawaiian, and this shop doesn’t disappoint with its handmade, made-in-Hawai‘i gifts, souvenirs and sundries.

BEACH & POOL SHOP

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

CHRISTOPHER EGAN GALLERIES

Crystal sculptures and adventurous dimensions in glass and photography create magic in this specialized gallery of powerful beauty.

CRUISE BOUTIQUE

The finest swimwear selection in Hawai‘i offers 18 brands, including Seafolly, Letarte and Maaji and Profile

by Gottex. And the sizes? Zero to 18.

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 are among the spa products.

NA HOKU

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

CAFÉ • BREAKFAST • LUNCH • BARISTA • DELI • CHEESE • WINE • GELATO

NAPUA GALLERY

A collection of Dale Chihuly art glass and drawings joins the original paintings, sculptures, jewelry and fine art items of this gallery, including works by the premier artists of Maui.

PACIFIC DREAM PHOTOGRAPHY A convenient photography studio and services help you take your memories home with you.

PINEAPPLE PATCH

Imaginative toys, books, puzzles and beachwear are among the finds for children. You’ll find hats, sun shirts and a life-size mermaid tail to swim in.

GRAND JEWELS OF WAILEA

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

PINK LILIA, A LILLY PULITZER® SIGNATURE STORE

KI‘I GALLERY

QUIKSILVER

Among the brillliant treasures of this long-standing, respected Maui gallery are handmade jewelry, handblown art glass and luminous, multicolored South Seas pearls.

The Roxy and Quiksilver lines include the latest in swimwear, board shorts, sunglasses and backpacks for catching the waves or exploring Maui. Check out the selection of GoPro cameras and accessories for your island adventure.

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Resort wear, dresses, sportswear and the signature Lilly Pulitzer colors light up the selection in the shop.

808-879-2433 10 Wailea Gateway Pl., Wailea, Maui 96753

Open for Breakfast & Dinner | Wailea Beach Resort, 3700 Wailea Alanui Dr. | (808) 879-4655 | hmkmaui.com | Complimentary Valet

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SPA BOUTIQUE

This is a trove of beauty secrets: bath salts, facial products, apparel, shampoo, lotions, sandals and many other items for those who aspire to fitness and radiance.

WAILEA GIFT SHOP

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

WAILEA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SHOP

With Tommy Bahama, Travis Mathew, Johnnie-O and other spirited menswear lines, the spotlight is on men. From swimwear to graphic tees, hats, sunglasses and aloha shirts for the lū‘au, the man with style will feel right at home.

Wailea Beach Resort 3700 Wailea Alanui 808.879.1922

Wailea Blue Clubhouse PRO SHOP CLUBHOUSE

100 Wailea Ike Drive 808.879.2530 Wailea Blue’s new, contemporary pro shop is stocked with top-of-the-line golf apparel, equipment and accessories. Included among the respected labels are GG Blue, Linksoul and Nike.

Wailea Golf Club 100 Wailea Golf Club Drive 808.875.7450 PRO SHOP, GOLD AND EMERALD CLUBHOUSE

Wailea’s award-winning pro shop, one of the largest in Hawai‘i, carries both golf and après-golf attire and accessories. Included are Under Armour, Polo, Travis Mathew, Adidas, Nike, Tommy Bahama, Helen Kaminski, Erik Javitz and more.

HOLOHOLO MARKET

With snacks and sundries, beach and sports apparel, accessories, souvenirs and distinctive gifts, this is a shop for day-to-evening needs. And with ice cream, snacks and island-made goodies, it’s a good place to holoholo.

MANDARA SPA

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

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Wailea Tennis Club 131 Wailea Ike Place 808.879.1958

MAUI’S BEST DINNER SHOW EVERY WEDNESDAY featuring songs, stories & comedy by Hawaii’s greatest entertainer

UNCLE WILLIE K

FOR RESERVATIONS CALL: 808.250.8288 FRIDAY – SOUL KITCHEN SATURDAY – MAKAI JAZZ SUNDAY – CELTIC TIGERS WAILEA’S ONLY SPORTS BAR 80” TV’s – Open Earlier for Football Season – All Sports Packages

In addition to logo apparel and accessories, the shop offers re-gripping and racquet-stringing services.

2PM to 5PM and 10PM to 12AM BEST HAPPY HOURS IN WAILEA 10PM to 12AM KITCHEN OPEN TIL MIDNIGHT

OPEN DAILY FROM NOON-2AM – 808.874.1131 |

PRO SHOP

MONDAY – JOYCE & GORD TUESDAY – MAGIC SHOW THURSDAY – PAT SIMMONS JR

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Build Your Dream Home!

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Why buy someone else’s Dream, when you can build your own?

The first home is completed at The Ridge!

This enclave of only 9 Premium half-acre home sites, features spectacular ocean and outer island views, and is located at the highest elevations within the Wailea Resort. The Ridge at Wailea offers sweeping vistas‌.An ideal locale to create your legacy Hawaiian retreat. Prices starting in the low $1 millions.

The Shops at Wailea ~ 3750 Wailes Alanui Dr., Ste B16 | Wailea, Maui, HI 96753 | Email: Brad@WaileaRealty.com

Bradley S. MacArthur Principal Broker, Owner Direct: 808.357.5000

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FUN IN THE SUN

Calling All Sun Lovers

THE COASTAL LIFE OF SOUTH MAUI has limitless appeal: 120 miles of shoreline, 30 miles of beaches, and enviable weather year-round. The views are the most obvious factor, but they’re only half the story. This is a resort conceived, designed and developed around leisure and luxury, made possible by thoughtful amenities and extraordinary surroundings.

There are five crescent beaches lining Wailea Resort. The daily pleasures are generous: recreation on land and sea, on tennis courts and golf courses, in swimming pools, the ocean and on trails.

Veteran beachgoers have their all-important beach kits at the ready: Vanity Fair, perhaps, or The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Economist or the Maui News. Sunglasses, a cap or wide-brimmed hat, snacks, cooler, towels and sunscreen are de rigueur in Wailea’s beach life. Anti-fog drops for the snorkeling mask are indispensable, unless you can find a fresh, tender naupaka kahakai leaf. (The naupaka growing abundantly on Hawai‘i’s shorelines is one of nature’s gifts.) Crush a young 88

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With these essentials, you can conquer the world.

And let’s not forget Kaho‘olawe, the silent presence on the horizon.

Looking for seashells, scanning the horizon for whales and dolphins, and basking in the views of Kaho‘olawe and the West Maui Mountains add their own luster to the beach life. “If we lose the beauty of our shoreline,” said the slogan for an environmental movement of the 1980s, “we lose what it means to live in Hawai‘i.”

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The beach, in all its beauty, beckons

THE SHOPS AT GRAND WAILEA MAKANA – GIFTS WITH ALOHA PINK LILIA - A LILLY PULITZER SIGNATURE STORE GRAND IMAGE BOUTIQUE GRAND JEWELS OF WAILEA CHRISTOPHER EGAN GALLERIES KI‘I GALLERY CRUISE BOUTIQUE PINEAPPLE PATCH NAPUA GALLERY QUIKSILVER WAILEA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SHOP NA HOKU PACIFIC DREAM PHOTOGRAPHY BEACH & POOL STORE

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THERE’S PLENTY TO PLAY AT HAWAII’S ONLY 54-HOLE GOLF RESORT

Blue skies, great greens, ocean views on every hole – you’ll find more to enjoy on Wailea’s three award-winning courses than anywhere else in Hawaii. Plus: great seasonal rates, multi-round specials and family-friendly offers mean you can play even more.

You’re just a tee time away. follow us!

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