As I write this there is snow on Haleakala! It's been a while (years!) since we've seen snow on the mountain - and it's beautiful! (It's also cold! :)
Here are some fun and entertaining things going on at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center this month…..
Now through February 17 the art exhibit "VINTAGE: Maui Artists with a Presence" is being shown. Each artist is featured in a mini retrospective with 3 pieces - one from their early work, one from their middle stage and one current piece. These are some of Maui's most amazing artists - George Allen, Pam Andelin, Betty Hay Freeland, Jan Kasprzycki, Rik Fitch……and so many others. What a great idea for a show!
February 2 Jerry Santos (of Olomana fame) with Hoku Zuttermeister and Barry Kimokeo for some great Hawaiian music. (I still love my old Olomana music!)
February 8, 9 & 10 The Music Man performed by the Maui Academy of Performing Arts
February 14 Valentines Day!!!!!!!! Make it special!
February 15 Kenny Rankin (!)
February 15 & 16 Keali'i Reichel and Halau Ke'alaokamaile - this should be an amazing evening of Hawaiian music, chanting and hula
February 29 WAR - this concert should bring back some memories! (Why Can't We Be Friends….)
We have some great new listings coming up - a beautiful home on 2 acres in Lower Kula for $1,485,000 and 2 cute homes on a half-acre in Makawao for $749,000. If you are looking for something like that give us a call and we'll let you know as soon as they are ready to show.
And please remember, if you or anyone you know is looking to buy or sell real estate - or have questions regarding real estate - please feel free to contact me. My e-mail address is: deb@HomeOnMaui.com, my direct local number is 283-0049; and my toll free direct number is (888) 212-4626. I look forward to hearing from you!
Take care.
Aloha,
deb
Featured Maui Real Estate Property Listings
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 2886 Ualani Place - click here for more info
Immculately maintained 3-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level home on the 9th fairway of the Pukalani Country Club.
$699,000
Sunnyside – Upcountry Real Estate 1900 Baldwin Avenue – click here for more info
You will feel like you stepped back in time when you enter this property! The 1930’s era house, cottage and studio are on over an acre of land that over looks miles of sugar cane fields to north and south shore ocean views.
$2,250,000
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate 25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info
This beautiful 4-bedroom, 3-bath home and detached 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage are on 2.88 acres with great north shore views and tons of privacy!
$1,550,000
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate
1390 Kokomo Road
Maliko House – a romantic and unique property with complete privacy, mature tropical landscaping, a 2,000 sf workshop/studio and much more on 1.9-acres.
$2,350,000 - SOLD
Kahului – Central Maui Real Estate
13 Ho’owehi Place
Like-new 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in a great new neighborhood!
$609,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate
241 Waiama Way
Haiku Hill at its best! 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 4,500 square foot
home. Amazing attention to detail. Sweeping ocean views.
$2,850,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
65 Maud’s Place
This is a beautiful 5-bedroom home with a wonderful floor plan! Located in the Keokea area on a 2-acre view lot – this is one of the nicest homes on the market in Kula.
$1,595,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
2936 Lower Kula Road
This 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in lower Kula has a detached cottage and sits on a level, half-acre lot. GREAT views!
$890,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
295 Pulehu Road
Architecturally-designed home in desirable Lower Kula, surrounded by
multi-million dollar homes on 2- to 20-acre parcels.
$2,995,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate
2080 Lilikoi Rd.
This C.W. Dickey-designed home and detached art studio was built in 1930 for Ethel and Harry Baldwin and moved to its present site in 1997. A “must see” if you are looking for views and privacy!
$1,225,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
670 Hoene St., Maui Uplands
Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with ocean views and detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottage on a half-acre.
$985,000 - SOLD
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate
2188 Pi’iholo Road
Great cottage on a .5-acre in Olinda! Check it out!
$598,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
28 Ka Drive
Located in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Kula Kai, this single-level home sits on a private 14,255 sq. ft. lot with ocean view.
$698,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
111 Keleawe Street
This 4-bedroom, 2-bath home has a flexible floor plan, a detached 2-bedroom
cottage and a large workshop/storage building. It's a great value at
$779,000 - SOLD
Kahului - Central Maui Real Estate
Kahului Ikena #40-221
1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with NEW: carpet, tile, paint, faucets, blinds refrigerator and closet built-ins!
Convenient location.
$239,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
50 Ahuwale Place
3 bedroom, 2 bath home plus detached studio/workshop with bathroom on 2 level, useable acres only 15 minutes to town.
$885,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
320 Hololani Street
Impeccably maintained, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on the 11th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course.
$819,000 - SOLD
Haiku - North Shore Real Estate
373 Ulumalu Road
Tucked back from the road among beautiful big trees is this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home with 3 large bonus rooms.
$750,000 - SOLD
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate
1000 Ukiu Rd.
Classic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ‘plantation’ home in perfect condition on a 10,000+ sq. ft. lot. Large kitchen and bedrooms; private backyard.
Perfectly priced at $550,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate
11 Welina Place
This is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 4,364 square foot home on 2 acres in Kula 200. It is all on one level with the exception of the 816 square foot master bedroom suite which has a bi-coastal view. Fabulous!
$1,685,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate
297 Kulamanu Circle
This like-new home has great curb appeal. Very nice landscaping and sideyard. Private and tranquil inside the home. Upper and lower decks overlook ranchland and Maalaea. Beautiful ocean view from living room and master BR. 9' ceilings upstairs. Fireplace (with blower) in living room. Double-pane windows throuighout. Built-in Bose sound system. Stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Walk-in closet in master BR. Whirlpool tub in master BA. Big family room with half-BA (and closet )downstairs. Easy to show.
$860,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
157 Pi'imauna Street
Kua'Aina Ridge: This gorgeous 3-bedroom, 2-bath home has amazing attention to detail (crown molding, plantation shuttered windows, bead-board wainscoting, etc.), a gourmet kitchen, perfect landscaping and nice north shore ocean views.
$760,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
1576 Lower Kimo Drive
Immaculate 4-bedroom, 3-bath (OR: 3-bedroom, 2-bath with attached 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana). Newly painted inside and out, brand new flooring and new appliances. Nothing left to do but move in and enjoy the great south shore ocean view and the fabulous Kula climate!
$715,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
256 Hololani St. Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana on the 12th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course.
$929,000 - SOLD
Kihei - South Maui Real Estate
Menehune Shores #416
Oh what a view! Walk in the front door and all you see are islands and ocean! This 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 4th floor, ‘front & center’ unit was completely renovated in 2001 – new EVERYTHING!
$650,000 - SOLD
Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate
2080 Lilikoi Road This is the classic C.W. Dickey-designed home on 2-acres with an amazing view!
$1,550,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
28 Mano Drive, Kula Kai
Nice, big, comfortable 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Kula Kai with a very flexible floor plan. This would be a great house for a large or extended family as the downstairs offers independence from the rest of the house.
$825,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
350 Lokelani house
A cute 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 2-car garage and panoramic north to south shore views!
$700,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
This is the classic “old plantation house” that everyone wants! Complete with glass door knobs, French doors, a big porch and an old “wash house” out back! Located across from pineapple fields this is a great buy at
$495,000 - SOLD
Events
Natural History
Allamanda, Golden Trumpet (Allamanda cathartica)
There are about twelve species of Allamanda. Some are woody climbers and other are more shrub-like in habit. The Golden Trumpet is called lani-ali'i, "heavenly chief," by the Hawaiians and is one of the most widely used plants in Hawaii for landscaping. One expert says the Hawaiian name may have been given to the allamanda because it was recognized as a flower "fit for a king." (In ancient times, yellow and gold were considered royal colors.)
Natives of Brazil, they are usually vigorous, sprawling green vines. They are often used as ground cover in dry, sunny places or to add softness to walls and terraces, especially in sandy seaside gardens where they do particularly well. They are grown in parks, lowland resorts, gardens and yards for the fragrant, large, velvety golden-yellow flowers, from three to five inches in diameter. The flowers cover the vines almost every day of the year. The vines rarely bear fruit in Hawaii.
Each flower is a tube that spreads into five thick lobes. The flowers grow in terminal clusters with two or three buds opening at a time. The buds are pointed, brownish in color and can look as if they have been varnished.
The leaves are smooth, thick and a pointed oval, growing in fours and forming a cross or whorl where they join the stem. They are a light green. In India some people consider a tea made from the allamanda bark to be a good laxative. In Columbia and in Cuba the sap or a tea made from the leaves was also used in medicine. However, be aware that all parts of the plant including its milky sap are considered to be mildly toxic and is likely to cause vomiting and diarrhea. Still, allamanda is not a common cause of illness or skin rash in Hawaii. Usually the symptoms produced by this plant (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and/or rash) disappear without treatment.
Other Allamanda varieties include A. oenotheraefolia, a native of Brazil which is more of a shrub, and A. violacea, another native of Brazil, which has reddish-purple flowers rather than the customary yellow ones. There is also a form with silvery-gray leaves.
When the sugar plantations were in the development stages, the companies provided medical services as well as housing, transportation and other community services for the large numbers of immigrant workers that they imported to work in the fields. The rivalry during the late 1800's between the two top sugar producers in East Maui - HC&S (Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar, a California corporation owned at the time by California sugar magnate Claus Spreckels) and the various permutations of the Alexander and Baldwin conglomerate of smaller, independently owned plantations, started an interesting hospital "dance"
One of the first hospitals to be opened for these workers and other Maui residents of the area was built by HC&S in 1885. It was located at Spreckelsville.
In 1898 (around the time Alexander and Baldwin became the principal shareholders of HC&S and Spreckels left the islands for good) a small hospital was established in Lower Paia by their Paia Plantation. Dr. Aiken was the resident physician, succeeded by Dr. McConkey. (In later years the buildings for that hospital were used for the Paia Club House and for the East Maui Community Association headquarters).
Then in 1903, the Paia Plantation formed a partnership with the Haiku Sugar Company to allow for joint operation of a sugar mill and other facilities. This partnership was called Maui Agricultural Company, Ltd. (Eventually, the original companies merged with five other small companies - Kailua Plantation, Kalialinui Plantation, Kula Plantation, Makawao Plantation and Pulehu Plantation so they could pool their resources.)
That same year, a wing was added to the Spreckelsville Hospital and an X-ray machine was added.
In 1909, the new Paia Hospital in Upper Paia, one of the largest, most up-to-date hospitals in the Territory of Hawaii, replaced the old hospital in Lower Paia. Built by the Maui Agricultural Company, it stood on Baldwin Avenue below Makawao Union church. (The site is marked now by a small monument set on the roadside next to waving sugarcane.) The hospital was built just as the plantations were expanding their work forces with immigrants from Russia, Portugal and the Philippines. In 1910, an epidemic of smallpox broke out among the Filipino worker population, and they were cared for by the medical staffs of both the Paia and the Spreckelsville hospitals.
Then, in January, 1912, a Maui News article announced that the Paia hospital had obtained a "fine new ambulance," and said it was "the first one to arrive on Maui. The vehicle had been ordered from the factory of the White Automobile Company.
In 1913 a new HC&S hospital was built at Puunene in central Maui and the old Spreckelsville Hospital was closed. Six years later, in 1919, there was a major influenza epidemic. A "total of 4,000 cases of influenza with perhaps 50 deaths," were reported between January 25 and February 21, 1919, according to the Maui News. Half of the cases were in East Maui and seven deaths there were attributed to the epidemic.
By 1930, HC&S, the largest sugar plantation on Maui, had as many as 26 camps housing more than 7,000 people. Within the plantation there were four public schools, three Japanese language schools, 10 churches, 12 day nurseries, three theaters, one gymnasium, a public swimming facility and the hospital. Government policies enacted in the late 1940's and in the 1950's, as well as a more articulate, independent workforce that organized themselves into unions, and an exodus of the workers' children from the camps as more opportunities for other kinds of work opened up would lead to the eventual breaking down of the old plantation camps and villages and to the birth of new towns and communities.
By 1948, the Territorial Senate had appropriated funds for the construction of the Central Maui Memorial Hospital. By the late 1940's the Paia Hospital was getting old. It was closed, and then reopened as the Maui Children's Home in 1949. (The orphanage closed in 1965.)
The new Maui Memorial Hospital was dedicated on August 17, 1952. World War II veteran Masao Aizawa spoke for the County's ex-servicemen at the celebration. He said, "This is indeed a fitting memorial to those who gave their all...."
On September 17, 1952, at 7:33 a.m. Gerald Lau Hee was the first baby born in the new hospital. His father, Thomas Lau Hee, was a World War II veteran. His mother was the former Alma Komatsu of Wailuku. He was delivered by Dr. Katuyuki Izumi.
Puunene Hospital was closed four years later, in 1956, and its services consolidated with those of Maui Memorial Hospital.
Before the arrival of Captain James Cook, Hawaiian was only a spoken language. They did not write to preserve history, instead they preserved their history in chants and legends. When Captain James Cook arrived to the islands in 1778, he realized how similar the Hawaiian language was to Tahitian and Maori.
When the missionaries came in 1820, they wanted to spread Christianity and set up schools and churches. So, the missionaries created a 12 letter alphabet based on their own roman alphabet and the sounds they heard. The alphabet was 5 vowels a, e, i, o, u and 7 consonants h, k, l, m, n, p, w. Today the modern Hawaiian alphabet includes those 5 vowels and 8 consonants, the eighth consonant is the ( ‘ ) ‘okina, and one grammatical mark, the kahakō, which is used to lengthen vowels.
Learn the Hawaiian Alphabet
In the Hawaiian alphabet there are 5 vowels:
A
E
I
O
U
(AH)
(EH)
(EE)
(OH)
(OO)
There also is those same 5 vowels with a kahakō over each vowel:
Ā
Ē
Ī
Ō
Ū
A Kahakō is a symbol that whenever its over a vowel, the wowel is drawn-out, you just lengthen the sound, don't raise the pitch of your voice.
Then there are 8 Consonants:
H
K
L
M
N
P
W
‘ (‘Okina)
(HEH)
(KEH)
(LAH)
(MOO)
(NOO)
(PEE)
(VEH/WEH)
(OH KEE NAH)
To pronounce H, K, L, M, N, P is the same as in English. The "W" is usually pronounced as if it was a "V" sound, but when the "W" is after the vowels "U" and "O" it's usually pronounced as a "W" sound.
The ‘okina is a "Glottal Stop," You stop whatever vowel sound you are saying, then switch to the next one. ("Oh-Oh" is an example with a break in it)
Rules To Remember:
There must be one vowel in each word
A vowel must be between each consonant, no consonants can be next to each other, like ml, np, hk, `k, etc.
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There are about twelve species of Allamanda. Some are woody climbers and other are more shrub-like in habit. The Golden Trumpet is called lani-ali'i, "heavenly chief," by the Hawaiians and is one of the most widely used plants in Hawaii for landscaping. One expert says the Hawaiian name may have been given to the allamanda because it was recognized as a flower "fit for a king." (In ancient times, yellow and gold were considered royal colors.)
When the sugar plantations were in the development stages, the companies provided medical services as well as housing, transportation and other community services for the large numbers of immigrant workers that they imported to work in the fields. The rivalry during the late 1800's between the two top sugar producers in East Maui - HC&S (Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar, a California corporation owned at the time by California sugar magnate Claus Spreckels) and the various permutations of the Alexander and Baldwin conglomerate of smaller, independently owned plantations, started an interesting hospital "dance"
Braddah-Nics Lexicon
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