Posted on: Thursday, May 29, 2003
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Event shines light on Ni'ihau shell lei
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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| Lei crafter Ululani Kanahele will take part in the Ni'ihau shell-lei program at Na Mea Hawai'i in Fort Street Mall.
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Na Mea Hawai'i, a gift shop specializing in handmade Hawaiian goods, is featuring Ni'ihau shell lei, Pupu o Ni'ihau, in a three-day event beginning today. Expert and collector Pam Dow of Pam's Forever Ni'ihau Shell Collection will be available all three days to answer questions, along with master lei crafters Ululani Kanahele and Awapuhi Kahale of Ni'ihau. Today only, Lena Mendonca, who has 40 years' experience in judging the worth of the lei, will do free Ni'ihau shell lei appraisals for the general public.
Lei and books on lei will be on sale. Appraisals take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today only. Dow, Kanahele and Kahale will be on hand from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Information: 548-2665.
National Geographic to air Everest story
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary. National Geographic Channel brings the mountain to TV viewers with repeats of its special, "Surviving Everest," which follows sons of three celebrated Everest climbers as they attempt to reach the peak and recounts the historic efforts on the mountain, at 2 and 5 p.m. today, and at 11 a.m. Sunday.
'Dolls in Our Lives' subject of new book
This is just one of those book ideas that makes you slap your forehead and say, "Why didn't I think of that?" Or perk up with interest and say, "I've got a story like that." It's "Enchanted Companions: Stories of Dolls in Our Lives," by writer, doll artist and teacher Carolyn Michael "and Friends," (Andrews McMeel, hardback, $14.95). Michaels gathers stories of the special relationships between women — and a few men — and the toy playmates of their childhoods.
Among them is the late Someko Kokita, who died at age 96 not long after Michaels talked with her. Kokita recalled how doll-making helped her endure internment at Camp Minidoka during World War II. She glued them together with rice water and used toilet paper as collage material. The story that helped inspire the book is one that epitomizes what a doll can be: The doll's owner, after her doll is destroyed, has no one with which to share her sadness because the doll was her confidante.
