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Hana Hou! Issue 26.3

April - May 2023
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Why We Kokua

On any given day in Hawai'i, you'll find a battalion of Hawaiian Airlines employees knee-deep in the mud weeding loi (taro patches).

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Raising Spirits

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The Last Sampan

Eighteen years after Iwaji Minato finished his contract as a plantation worker near Hilo, he got himself a secondhand Ford ($500) and a chauffeur's license.

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Temple on the Mount

There was a time when it was easy to miss the band of reedy wetland wedged between the Oahu Club's tennis courts and Hawaii Kai Drive.

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The Right Stuff

Utae Suzuki once made the Dalai Lama's bed-literally.

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Living Symmetries

Five years ago Oahu-based photographer Kristen Reyno was at an impasse.

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A Cut Above

If it hadn't been for Hurricane Iniki in 1992, Kauai scientists might have never discovered the Wailua River yellow loosestrife.

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Net Zero

Cleaning one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems a ghost net at a time.

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Creation Stories

For Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde, worlds are conversations.

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Small Comforts

Mini parks are patches of respite in Honolulu’s urban quilt.

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Holding the Line

For generations, Hawai‘i Island’s paniolo have kept ranching alive—and thriving.

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Over the Rainbow Bridge

Taking the leap in Haleiwa.

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Blue Grit

Avan Becerra’s epic rise through the sport of outrigger paddling.

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Left Coast Aloha

SoCal’s four-string ‘ohana gathers at the Los Angeles International Ukulele Festival

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A Knickerbocker in Hawaii

Oahu Cemetery, the most historic of Hawaii's many Western cemeteries, is full of famous folks, but there's one final resting place that gets visited more than any other.