Waimanalo — You can go home again. To a place that looks nothing like the town you grew up in, that feels nothing like the safe hamlet of your youth. Until. You find yourself standing alone on a cold stretc...
Waimanalo — There’s a trail that leads up one of those ridges to the sawtooth summit above. No ropes or cables to aid the ascent, just one’s judgment on which rock or root outcropping is solid enough to bear one’...
Waimanalo — I confess to being mildly surprised that places like these—set aside for people of Hawaiian descent—have actually survived. Survived rampant development and the exigencies of modern capitalism in the ...
Pono talking with his Uncle Thomas about the last family reunion 2 years ago.
Alaihi Street cul-de-sac, approaching 5 in the afternoon...
I used to scale these sheer cliffs in Waimanalo, when we lived here on O'ahu.
Manana Island (a seabird sanctuary) in the background.
The Hawaiian Homesteads street in Waimanalo, where Auntie Mattie grew up.
They call this place God's Country. It's easy to see why.