Category: Blog
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Feeling The Heat
Five years ago, I spent summer in Hawaii. Here’s a look back … I had been warned not to pack jeans. Oahu is hot and humid all the time, seriously, 24 hours a day, my friend Lisa told me over the phone. She had flown to Honolulu a month before and settled into her job…
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Loss To The PVS ‘Ohana
The Polynesian Voyaging Society lost a special member of its family March 8 with the death of Herb Kawainui Kāne. A Hawaiian artist, historian and cofounder of PVS, Kāne, 82, passed away on the 36th anniversary of Hokule’a’s maiden launch. He helped design this voyaging canoe and served as its first captain. Kāne helped usher…
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Let Me Explain
Aloha, dear friends and welcome to “Wailing Peacocks,” a blog devoted to sharing the true story of how a navigator, double-hulled canoes and dozens of volunteers voyage to distant places to demonstrate the value of home. That’s awfully vague, isn’t it? Let me explain. This project, affectionately nicknamed “For Hawaii, With Love,” centers on the…
Sena Christian 