Kohala Heritage Center

The Kohala Culture & History Advisory Group does a huakaʻi every other month. This month we visited the Kohala Heritage Center, which is located in the old Bond Memorial Library. KHC Board President Aunty Pat & KHC Board Vice President Aunty Sharon shared about the work that went in to the center & future work that needs to be done. They are having a soft opening on March 26th, Prince Kūhiō Day.

(L to R) Lehua, Libby, & Leia walk along commemorative brick walkway to entrance.

Libby takes a photo of Kanani & Lehua pointing out their family brick.

Panorama of interior of center.

In the gift shop.

After the tour, we held a quick meeting since there are some grant deadlines that are quickly approaching & we also need to keep momentum going for the Kohala Reunion. We used the Hawaiian Reading Library table for our meeting. Kanani shared his vision for the Front Porch talk story area; he did another drawing that includes the seating area for visitors. We also briefly discussed the ahupuaʻa project. During the meeting Boyd reported that the Agribusiness Development Corporation made a presentation to the Kohala CDP Agriculture committee. The ADC is looking to purchase 3 properties in North Kohala with the intention of keeping the land in productive agriculture. I learned that the 94 acres behind us is 1 of the properties they are looking at; it would be great to have that land be kept in productive agriculture. Once you start building houses, its difficult to turn it back in to productive agriculture. 

Kanani's new plan for Front Porch.

Map of North Kohala ahupuaʻa.

The 94 acre pasture behind us is outlined in yellow.

Here are some photos of the ice plants in the sun. Their flowers close up in the shade so looked kinda sad in yesterday's photos. As they go through their bloom periods, I will try to remember to get photos of each species. Since they are species & not varieties, their bloom times are not all the same so don't anticipate seeing a photo of the planter with all of them in bloom at the same time.

The purple (L) & the pink are still blooming.

The yellow & light pink were in bloom when I bought them but not now.

Still no email from Immi about my order. I will assume they are not charging the shipping fee since I have not been contacted about increasing the charge to my card. Now I wait for the package to arrive. 

There is still snow on Mauna Kea. It appears it will be with us for a little longer as another cold front will be here before the end of the week.

(From IRFT web cam site)

(From Subaru Telescope web cam site)

The eruption at Kīlauea volcano is still on pause.

(VMAP Vog Forecast map)

As I was getting ready to finalize this post, I was watching the late evening news. They announced the eruption was active again! I searched my email but did not find a status report from Hawaiʻi Volcano Observatory. But the web cams showed the activity. The fountains are apparently 50 to 80 feet high.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Susan & Fran!