Historic Hawaii Foundation: HHF

The 2021 update of the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) offers a timely opportunity to re-evaluate Hawaii’s recreational needs and trends of statewide importance. With the preparation of the plan every 5 years, Hawaii remains eligible for funds from the Land & Water Conservation Fund, a federal grant program administered by the National Park Service. These funds help states & local governments acquire recreational lands and renovate recreation facilities. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Submit your input regarding the 2021 SCORP update via the online survey here: https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/scorp. Dates for informational meetings are also listed at the link. (Photos from DLNR)

PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY, Q&A with Filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford Powered by Restream https://restream.io/ March 30, 2021: Q&A with the Filmmaker... PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY explores the remarkable political story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, an Asian American woman who overcame adversity to redefine American politics. Small in stature but a giant in vision, she began her life on a Maui sugar plantation and rose to become the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States Congress, where she served from 1965-1977 and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. A firecracker and a fighter, she continually pushed the limits of what was acceptable, speaking out early and persistently against the Vietnam War and entering the 1972 presidential primary, making her one of the first women to seek the nation’s highest office. She transformed America’s schools and universities as the co-author and driving force behind Title IX, later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, the landmark legislation that opened up higher education and athletics to women. Kimberlee Bassford combines her love for storytelling with her background in journalism to bring the underrepresented stories of girls and women to the world. She directed and produced the documentaries Winning Girl (2014, The World Channel, Women Make Movies/Java Films), Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008, PBS, Women Make Movies) and Cheerleader (2003, HBO Family, Documentary Educational Resources) and was a producer on two national PBS documentary series: Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2008) and The Meaning of Food (2005). She has garnered numerous honors for her work, including film festival audience awards and grand jury prizes, a duPont-Columbia Award, Student Academy Award and CINE Golden Eagles. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Women in Film, Film Independent, CNN, ITVS, Center for Asian American Media, Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), Pacific Islanders in Communications and CPB/PBS. She has also served on juries for the Hawai‘i International Film Festival, ‘Ohina Short Film Showcase and Guam International Film Festival and is a member of A-Doc, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Documentary Producers Alliance, Film Fatales, IFP and Women in Film. Kimberlee holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Master of Journalism from the University of California Berkeley. She owns Making Waves Films LLC, a documentary production company in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The Hna Hongwanji Gakuen Temple also known as Hna Buddhist Temple, was built in the 1940s and remains a historic cultural beacon in the Hna community and a special symbol of the spiritual and cultural values of the Japanese people who lived and worked in Hna. Its preservation ensures it will remain as a link to the past and a gathering place for the present. View the photo essay of the phased rehabilitation work. https://bit.ly/39Dpzlj Read about the community that envisioned the Temple's return to a public gathering place and their journey toward making that vision a reality. https://bit.ly/3rFYUKI

Announcing our next virtual preservation seminar, Native Hawaiian Burial Protection & NAGPRA, Wed. 5/26 at 10am. The free seminar will share Native Hawaiian burial treatment and protection and the laws and procedures that govern them. The historic and cultural context for grave protections and repatriation, along with best practices for avoiding sensitive sites and engaging in consultation with lineal and cultural descendants will also be presented. The seminar was created by HHF, in partnership with the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and Office of Native Hawaiian Relations. Learn more & register https://bit.ly/2QlvuEt (Image: Honokahua Burial Site is a 14-acre historical and cultural landmark protecting the iwi kpuna buried in the sand dunes at Kapalua.)

May 15th is the deadline for the next round of HHF Historic Preservation Grants! The grants fund rehabilitation or restoration construction projects that preserve the character-defining features of a historic building or site used for a public or community purposes supporting historic preservation as a mechanism for building community, enhancing Hawaii’s sense of place, and support for improved societal relationships. Find out more here and help us spread the word to historic organizations in need. https://bit.ly/2QmCkcQ (Image of Mokuaikaua Church, a past Preservation Grant recipient, by John Hildreth courtesy of National Trust for Historic Preservation.)

A new digital resource is available at the University of Hawai‘i at Mnoa Library preserved as the Ossipoff & Snyder Architects Collection. The vast archive of architectural drawings and plans spans the 60 years of the Ossipoff firm and approximately 500 projects serving as an important resource for architecture students, historians, preservation architects and homeowners looking to restore their Ossipoff homes. https://bit.ly/3cQVwII #architecture