As of earlier this week, there are still spots open to attend this
event.
This is waaay cool.
Actors are dressed in period costume, telling the life events of select
individuals buried at O‘ahu Cemetery, at their respective grave sites.
There was nothing ghoulish about it; rather, it was very effective
storytelling.
$60 per person - includes drinks and pupu, seating limited, RSVP
required.
Click here to make your reservation:
https://safesite.4agoodcause.com/mission-houses-museum/event1.aspx?eventid=15
We went last year and are already signed up for this one – I suggest
you do, too. It’s lots of fun and a good
learning experience.
Portrayed in the June Hawaiian Mission Houses Cemetery Pupu Theater
program will be:
John Papa I‘i (1800-1870) – Served Kamehameha I, II, III and IV; was
general superintendent of O'ahu schools; was appointed by the king to the
Treasury Board; was a member of the Privy Council; Board of Land Commissioners
and was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawai‘i .
Cherilla Lowry (1861-1917) - Founder and first president of the Outdoor
Circle (TOC) (100-years ago) whose mission was to “Keep Hawai‘i clean, green
and beautiful.”
Eliab Grimes (1780-1848) – A fur trader whose voyages in illegal
activities brought him face-to-face with the Spanish Armada, and required
ransoming a crew which included John Dominis, the future would-be father-in-law
to Queen Lili`uokalani.
Lucy Thurston (1795-1876) – Wife of Asa Thurston and part of the first
company of American Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. She underwent a mastectomy without anesthetic
in 1855. She died on October 13, 1876 in Honolulu.
Lorrin Andrews (1795-1868) - An early American missionary to Hawaii and
judge. In June 1831 the mission hoped to establish a seminary on Maui, since it
was somewhat centrally located among the Hawaiian Islands. Andrews was selected
to run the school called Lahainaluna for "upper Lahaina".
Please also consider visiting the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site
and Archives (on King Street, adjoining Kawaiaha‘o Church.)
(I am honored and proud to have been recently elected to serve on the
Mission Houses Board of Trustees.)
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