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August 2014 - In This Issue:
HOW TO AVOID A WILD PIG ATTACK
The Hawaiian Survival Handbook
by Brother Noland
If you are hiking on a designated trail in Hawai'i, you'll often see wild pig tracks. Hawai'i's pig population is overabundant, very healthy and about as crowded as traffic in Honolulu. If you wander off the beaten path, you're even more likely to come face-to-face
with a wild pig. Here's how to spot and avoid them:

  • If you see lots of tracks and evidence of digging, stay on the main trail. Pigs like to eat roots and wallow in muddy areas of the rainforest.
  • Keep your head up and watch what's ahead on the trail. Sometimes you will see the pigs before they see you...sometimes.
  • While walking on a trail, look left to right to spot cross trails made by pigs. These are animal runs. Sometimes you meet a pig at one of the crossroads.
  • Mud rubbings are another indication of pig activity. Pigs like to rub their bodies against tree trunks and leave mud rubbings behind in doing so. These rubbings can show you the size of the pig and how recently or long ago the animal was in the area.
  • If confronted or startled by a pig barreling down a pig run or main trail, jump aside and get onto or behind a tree to avoid a charge.
  • A charging pig is an angry pig. He will come at you and try to bite or gouge you with his tusks. These animals are fast and agile. Get off that trail the pig thinks he owns.
NEW RELEASE: The Hawaiian Survival Handbook
by Brother Noland
Chances are you'll never have to fight off a wild boar or forage for food on a deserted beach. Maybe you'll never need to survive for weeks alone in Hawai'i's tropical jungle or on its shoreline. But you never know. The Hawaiian Survival Handbook is a just-in-case bush guide for when things go wrong -- from flash floods to shark attacks, from rip tides to box jellyfish.

Best known for his award-winning, decades-long music career, author Brother Noland is also a dedicated outdoorsman and guide. Hawaiians, he notes, "have always been hunters, trackers and fishermen." In The Hawaiian Survival Handbook, he shares the outdoor skills he has developed over a lifetime spent in Hawai'i's forests and waters, as well as those he has learned from expert native trackers in other cultures. The Hawaiian Survival Handbook is a one-of-a-kind collection of beginner-level skills and techniques taught in Brother Noland's Hawaiian Inside Tracking (HIT) program, offered through his Ho'ea Initiative (www.hoeainitiative.net), which gives both children and adults the opportunity to learn traditional Hawaiian tracking and outdoor skills.

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Eddie Wen' Go Comes Alive!
Marion Lyman-Mersereau's Charming Children's Book Performed Onstage at The Hawaii Theatre
Eddie Wen' Go: The Story of the Upside-Down Canoe, a captivating children's book about the courageous Eddie Aikau, told by the sea creatures who watched as the voyaging canoe Hokule'a overturned during a storm and the brave waterman Aikau paddled off for help, will be staged next month at the Hawai'i Theatre as part of the HTC 'Ohana Series.

Marion Lyman-Mersereau, a crewmate aboard Hokule'a during its fateful voyage, wrote Eddie Wen' Go to share Aikau's legacy of courage and sacrifice. It has long been her dream to see Eddie Wen' Go as a live-action play and that day has finally come!

Coinciding with Hōkūleʻa's round-the-world voyage, this imaginative production uses hula, chant, masks and puppetry to bring the book to life. Two performances will be held on Friday, September 19, 7pm and Saturday, September 20, 2pm. To purchase tickets or to learn about student matinee performances, visit the Hawai'i Theatre website.

Ticket prices: General admission, $10; HTC members/seniors/military, $7; Students, $5; Children under 4, free.

Copies of Eddie Wen' Go will be available for purchase at the shows, and Marion Lyman-Mersereau will be on hand to sign books. 

SIX-WORD MEMOIR DRAWING WINNERS
The Winners of Our Legacy Isle Publishing Drawing
We asked you to share your own Six-Word Memoirs with us. We had some lovely memoirs submitted and three were drawn as the winners in our giveaway celebrating the release of  Writing the Hawaii Memoir by Darien Gee. 

 

Congratulations to our winners:

 

J.D. Revelle: "Once lost, now found. Live Aloha."

 

Aja Hannah: "Pungent mosquito coils burn twilight memories."

 

Rachelle Chang: "Outward mom, inner artist, constant reader."     

 

Each of our mini-memoirists will be receiving:
30%
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS   
END-OF-SUMMER CHILDREN'S BOOK SALE!

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