SPECTRUM HAWAII-Show 407 & Show 408-"Kohala"; Antique Cars, Square Dancing; Interlude: Western Art; Barbershop Chorus; Kohala

The following program is a production of h e t in Honolulu Hawaii Public Television the following program has been funded in part by grants from the Hawaii State foundation on culture in the arts and the people at Chevron in Hawaii. Christina Rossetti once said. Who has seen the wind. Do you know. What when the trees bow down their heads. The wind is passing by. The wind is like time it passes unawares and we're reminded of. Today spectrum Hawaii seeks out Remembrance of Things Past through todays arts and

avocations. We see a barbershop chorus of men and song American paintings of the fabled West and social dancing in the square. First we hear the antique sound of vintage cars restored to the glamour of robust health by their owners untiring affection. There is a wild exhilaration in speeding 30 miles an hour over the hard smooth roads of the suburbs guiding and controlling one's own conveyance and. Passing tram cars and all other vehicles. One's car travels at an even rate mile after mile. Without stopping or tiring. It can be started at a moment's notice and stable without food or water. And that requires little care. These exuberant remarks written for a little magazine in 1905 heralded the automobile age in the island's.

First car an electric carriage came to Hawaii and 1899 here Honolulu Ironworks executive Christian Jacob Hederman poses with his family and his electric car. The year is 9900 five. It was one of the first to bring cars to Hawaii and used his to commute to work. The magazine article continued. In order to be even with the period and lose as little as possible of the time of the first new century. One must keep an automobile. And Islanders follow this advice. They decorated their vehicles for floral parades and proudly posed them in front of Hawaiian landmarks. They took them on entire island trips. And for Sunday drives through Kahala. Even the family dog in this case got his own special perch.

The sensation of speed drove others to compete an island car race. Women were welcome to try their hand at the wheel. Literally. Even the bathing beauty and the famous Hawai'ian beaches were employed to show off the sleek lines of the newest model. Car agency sprang up with salesmen standing by eager to help the customer. They added and unique the island touch by draping lays around the radiator caps. And of course where cars travel repair shops follow. But away from the maddening crowds the favorite pastime of all was the drive through the country. Like this chap in one valley. The times are different now. The attraction of the old cars have captured the hearts of two Honolulu men are dedicated to restoring their. Emblem is the president of a real estate management company which specializes in

restoring and renting historic properties in Honolulu's Chinatown. David Cornwell is a commercial photographer who works in a uniquely design studio. It reflects his love of the past. And the past is very much present in these two men's work and in their hobby of restoring cars. I love antique cars. I've always have even while going to college I drove a 39 Chevy dated my wife in a 39 Chevy Lumb bought his first car 16 years ago. I was told of this model 40 in Kailua for $500. One evening I ran over and bought the car brought it towed it all home and found out that that time I knew nothing about the Model T Ford. He consulted with friends read manuals and learned by doing. Now if you show me a part I often want to live for I can tell you almost exactly where I go.

I will only restore the convertibles the Roadsters that Turing's the convertible seat in. The car he is driving is a 1930 Ford a fit. This particular model was most popular in the islands. Not only because of the convertible top but because it was the least expensive which offset shipping costs from the mainland. When these cars were manufactured back in the early 30s and even 20s. The cars that were sent over here to Hawaii were the convertibles. People in Wisconsin never bought a convertible car. Do you know because the winter. I have found numerous convertible cars which are in heavy demand by any national club member. Today they are found in a rusted state. And Lum's strips down the chassis. If we're working on the bike.

He's been working on this 1932 Ford roadster in his spare time for the past five years. It is the fourth car he has restored. In this garage. There are six other cars in pieces and parts waiting for their turn. And why does he spend five to eight years working on a car. I hate to see the cars destroyed. I don't like to see him taken to the dump and bulldozed. But. To restore one of these. Just bring satisfaction. Lonigan. For photographer David Cornwell the romance of a 10 year period has claimed his heart. I tend to like cars from 1925 to 1935. By the time 19:25 came around the automobile had evolved into a mass produced usable item

in a world that was still basically agrarian. The people that had cars except for the very sophisticated elite cars. Took care of them themselves and indeed the cars were designed to be taken care of by them. This simplicity of mechanical maintenance appeals to today's car restored. Like others he too takes his time returning his cars to their original beauty. It's very it's very much a contemplative activity. You sit down and say things that really sound stupid like what should I do first. There are about five thousand things to do. Cornwell's has 12 cars in his garage and outside in varying degrees of restoration.

No Hill to steep no mud to date is a sales pitch for this 1956 Duret built. Starland sedan. Now owned by Cornwell's. Acquiring the cars has become a near obsession. I think a lot of the people that like antique cars. Get into this strange drive to save the mall. You know you become the patron saint of surviving antique automobiles or permitting them to survive. There are two antique car clubs in Hawaii and although the members are diverse they have a common pursuit. They all are interested in excellence. They are people that deal in detail. They are interested in restoring and preserving these vehicles. As history

created them. For all of us have ever fallen in love with a car restoring one that is more than putting on another coat of paint. It is a statement about having dreams of our own possibilities. To get to a point in your life somewhere between childhood and senility. There is some clear moments that you say these are mine. And I'm going. To have them be mine and I will go back in my shop. And make something. Older than I am. Younger than. Your hands around my friends we're facing now we'll send them back. All right up to if start square dancing appears to be the descendants of English folk dancing once known only to

rural people. Square dancing now enjoys international arena. This is a dance for participants. Well a professional theatrical dances requires spectators. Square dancing is a happy haunt of amateurs who seek and vote. The original meaning of the word amateur is lover one who does his work for love or his play. You're never too old. The square dance and I'm living proof that. I've been dancing since 1955 which is a little over 30 years. And. I was just as much fun today as I was maybe a little slower just as much fun. The square dance or at least a balance. I'm active duty Navy stationed here on the island of Oahu. I've been square dancing now for

approximately 10 years. Square dancing to me means a place where one can get together with people from every walk of life. We have diggers we have lawyers doctors almost anyone you can think that. People can get together. It's an inexpensive way to get together and have fun. And an evening of relaxing and enjoying the sport. For as you go on. Tostado go around looking for any quarter please. I want. To write a love for. The ocean. Recycle. There's a nice little lady over a yellow rock. The color is the quarterback but he's also the choreographer. He calls out his choreography and song. While his dancers step to the tune I.

Get. Like everybody else. I'm Bob Rollins and I call square dance. I've been calling for 18 years. I started square dancing in Germany. And doing in the military I have an opportunity to go around the world and a square dance tour as well. What action of course is the national language left around and Japanese left or something using left Elmander. Germany has the same goal. It's interesting to see a Japanese car attacked another Japanese call in Japanese in total turn around grab that microphone is left alone. And this is a lot of fun squid and we do it as an outlet. I'd put in some hours at work and it gets kind of tedious and it gets kind of hard. And I've got something other than my work to to look forward to where I can get out and relax and enjoy myself and have fun with those folks that have taken me into their hearts and I enjoy that. Anything else in this world. Fandom please move back to you and all that. Now let me. Hold back when I finally. Ran right over the sugar of air coming your way. You. Probably. I'll. Get her back home. And

settling down and away here. There you go. I'm a. Little. Like an animal. All. Right. And I'll let you back in with a bag of star. Come on down. That's what happens. All right. Well there's a pretty girl. Come on down. Oh my. Now what should skip one girl skip another skip. Other Woman in your corner moved back to a final grand final. Round. To get it back settle down. When you're there. You're almost there. Square dancing is probably one of the most enjoyable activities that I've been involved here. I was born and raised in the Midwest and I had to come over to Hawaii to learn how to square dance or be the amateur who has found his love. These couples gather together for the blind delight of dancing and to make new friends and acquaintances and they do it it's. Crazy.

That is. Go all. Those when you sleep through all this. Stress Check your life. Call. Did it. All. This birthday. She looks forward to this night. Together with his wife. So she is not going to be a rogue element of sensing in this square as frequently as possible Girls check it circulate. Around. Western America paintings from the shoots collection of Denver Colorado paws in Honolulu on a worldwide tour which includes Shanghai Beijing Brussels and Munich among other cities.

The pursuit West has been a potent symbol in American history second only to the pursuit of happiness. To some. The two pursuits were one. Well

you see our initials printed on programs that S P E B S Q As a. Society for the preservation and encouragement of barbershop quartet singing in America Incorporated 9 0 3 2 0 0 0 where a local chapter here in Hawaii have an international organization. Called say

they be wrong. Our goal is to sing better and because that's our hobby singing barbershop harmony. Oh my God. Oh Lord. I've been singing barbershop 17 years we have guys here have been singing 30 plus years. We have guys who have been singing barbershop for two weeks. Oh

God. Oh God. Pop pop. Pop you when someone on short notice says Can this chorus come down and sing for this organization.

We have a repertoire of songs that we can use. Now we have another set of songs that we call our Hawaiian package because depending on who we're singing for it's appropriate to throw in some Hawaiian barbershop arranged music. A hot hot. Hot rod he sometimes will be singing somewhere and a guy walk up and say. I want to do that. And we tell him Thursday night 7:00 come on down and join us. I. Did it.

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when I'm directing I have no conscious. Knowledge of what I'm doing. It's all feel. You know I just. I have lots of times who performing on stage and suddenly you come and say why did you do that and see why they do what you say. Who said you can sit down here please. Because I get so involved in simply trying to. Inspire and it sounds a cornball but it's true. Try to inspire the singers to just give everything they can to the audience. Now I'm happy you're coming back. Good bye. I trust this is a terribly terribly emotional.

Experience barbershop. Oh you heard it all over time. Just. Remember. Hot hot

hot hot you got to be the man next to you you don't care what he is you may holler at him on the phone fighting it on Wednesday or Thursday night. Without him you're nothing and he's nothing without you. And you just get this feeling. And it's it's it's it's an emotional. It really is an emotional. Experience. We go to him in the car was we'd call him in the car without getting involved in a school that we held every year for a week. Back in Kansas the 550 or 600 barbershop was the final night. We had this theme song to sing the whole singing. I have seen men swoon. I know I could

literally pass out because of the emotion that you get with this. This whole thing. I love you. I had my car here. I can't get through the whole song. I have to start getting on my feet and it's just nothing soon. But I actually have just and you just get to the point where you have to sit that and it can't. But when we do get men together that enjoy doing this sort of thing and enjoy each other. There is nothing like how are. You. Now. Where are you

now. Oh my day. Oh my God. Oh my how. Spectrum was funded in part by grants from the people of Chevron in Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts. The following program is a production of each E.T. in Honolulu Hawaii

Public Television the following program has been funded in part by grants from the Hawaii State foundation on culture in the arts and the people who Chevron in Hawaii. Kohala. A district of the northwestern portion of the big island of Hawaii. Is. A land of. His. Little Hawaiian history and home to many artisans. Musical performers. And contrast the lifestyles of new and old presidents.

Unifier. Of the islands and King of Hawaiian kings. Coming home the home was gone. Along. With the original bronze statue. Cast in his honor and once Monistat see. No. One time adviser to John Cunningham. John. Faulkner began. What is now. It's not just individual.

Compasses. Nearly two hundred fifty thousand acres of mountains streams and pastures. Richard smart owner of the massive park ridge maintains a luxurious estate outside come along. His interests apart from ranch operations include the New York stage. I was born in Honolulu I didn't happen to be born here on the ranch. Most people think I was. But no I was born in manoël valid many many years ago. Nearly 73 As a matter of fact. But I was educated in California mostly around San Francisco and then went to Stanford University for a year and then had this awful hankering to tread the boards go on the stage so I ended up at the Pasadena community playhouse school of the theater and that was way back in the early thirties.

From there I went on to the stage you might say. During the summers when I went to school in California. I came back here to the ranch for the summer vacations I spent three months in the ranch which was wonderful because I got to know the ranch I wasn't forced into any jobs but I just kind of absorbed the ranch itself the workings of it I say by osmosis or just being there and for a kid it was great. You know I love to ride horseback. And it was a fabulous summer vacation for me always. I enjoy working with the ranch and seeing that it's traveling in the right direction or as near a possible as I may think it's in the right to write. A whole operation what goes into a truck stop on my dad and therefore the ranch can continue in its entirety if it hadn't been that if I'd left it to my family they would have had to have sold it off to pay for the inheritance taxes unfortunately. And I preferred to have the ranch continue. I think

mainly because of the employees and their families who are third and fourth generation now on the right. And they deserve some lengthy thing. So with a group of trustees and the ranch being interested can go on indefinitely. That because of my interest in the theater when I retired from the professional theater in 1959 it had always been my dream maybe one of these days to have a theater here in Commonwealth and bring theater and its different presentations and productions right here to the people that I knew and the people that I enjoyed and loved and my home town you might say. Richard smart is probably the most fantastic person I've ever worked for. I guess this is for a variety of reasons Richard himself is a very warm understanding human being. But he is also someone that understands

theater understands all the problems that are involved with it which makes my job so much easier. Something doesn't work. Richard understands he's been in the business for. Many years so he has great sympathy with. Him. When you say you've done everything possible to promote X event and somehow it didn't work. That's show business. Now most people don't understand that when you're working for a board of 25 people I have on the main one. They don't understand that because they are working in their profit making businesses. And if you do everything right you're supposed to make a profit are supposed to be successful. That's not the way it works in show biz. Everything you do is a gamble. And to have someone to work for someone like Richard. That understands all this. Makes my job. Having. My mother's name was Kahil do you see a halo on or pull up a Iolani. It was the whole thing but they always called it. Ilu and that's why I named

it after her because she loved the set as she used to go to the theater as a young girl in San Francisco. And then they made a trip to New York in London and she saw a lot of theater. I mean this was at a very young age she was about 19 and 20 at that time. But the theater was one of her interest and it's always had been mine ever since I was at it. It just fascinated me so. Yes. Author and lay specialist Marie McDonald world's most of her own flowers on the family farm. I'm going to collect some flowers that I need to get some lace finished up this morning.

We grow all these strange looking things around here for. Corn Meal material. Actually. A lot of the farmers think I'm crazy with these strange materials. When you need a little bit because I'm just doing the. Show I try to cut my little material to the size that I want to use. So I don't have to double prepare. You can take a beating I can shove it down in a bucket. It won't hurt at all. I want to I need some locally who we can grow our own locally who on the farm mostly because. It's a long haul to go up to the mountains and get hot also because we want to kind of preserve our forests and also

because I like make up. This is a nice young red leaf tips of the Lehua that I'm gathering. And you find that a lot of our lawmakers today prefer using this than any other material. We always say that the Liko is beautiful and there's all kind of vehicle. You see this one is a little different than the last one we pick. They look like little roses. And they're all very beautiful if you mix them all up. You get a terrifically. The fun started because it's an outgrowth of my living making experience and my association with Lee. And pretty soon it expanded to cut flowers. But first because of the making. And so we grow a lot of stuff. Babies breath and this Australian team carnations in

the greenhouse and all the flowers in the greenhouse. Two other small type materials pansies Arcudi coolly the typical things that go up here and why now we pick about 2000 carnation heads every other day and. They sold to the game makers. Right here and why now. In the old days they used to grow these outside to grow carnations outdoors they still do on Maui but here in one there we have to Greenhaus them to protect them from the wind and extra extreme. The art of making hasn't changed over the years the traditional techniques are the same. The only difference is that we are using introduced materials and this is to the credit of the people for you because this this is creativity.

I want to make a point about the difference between a Hochuli and Villi and Healy those are Hawaian words for the technique they're terms for the technique that was used not the finished product. This is a simple technique called Heeley. It's just braiding plating with one single material. You know when you add to that plate another material and you lock it in place and I'm going to add some equally or I. Add this to the plate and I lock it in place. The Hawaiians in their specific language and specific use of language change the name of that technique to Haku because Huckle means to mount to set in place. So we're taking another material putting it into the braid and locking it in place. So

this is a Hochuli this pot that I'm doing here right now. What has happened over the years is we don't know the language so well and we've lost the use of the language. So we hear somebody call on the outward appearance. They look alike and they call it Hochuli. And so you think every lead that looks like that is how clean it isn't it is a Les Paul. HEADLEE Or Netley you know or Keino a body that can be worn around the hips or across the front you know. And if you use those three general terms you're never going to have trouble. Kind of nice to. Know Laili on us. Is one of very few dance scales in the Kohala

district. I just. Open up my school because I felt with the knowledge I have. You know I can teach the children here. But I hear what I know. I've worked under different teachers and I am very proud to say that. I. Studied under five. Besides my mother was raised and caught up with my speech. And I learned a lot from her. And I went out and learned from different teachers. I kind of. Put everything together and. Found my own way and style. You. Know I'm sorry to say that most of my teachers are no longer Libby. And. What I have here with me. My knowledge. I want to make sure. Children. Go to. School. I do have children in my school and. They love. And they want to know.

And. I'm so glad that they feel that school makes it easier for me to teach. I trained them from like basic like everybody else. The same thing is you dance the hula to to. Give what you have. Don't hide it. Sure sure everybody just told everybody tell yourself in fact tell yourself you're beautiful you want to desert you beautiful. When you get up there you just do. Just Dance feel you dance. And enjoy. It. Hyong. Promise. Promising. Pen and Ink artist Tommy Holmes sketches whenever farm tours allow him some free time. Just.

Drawing. People. To be. Close. To this point. For myself and. Never shown to me. And. When. Like. Investing since 1936. Margaret Fleming Waldron's paintings are

found in private collections too. What do you mean. I first started painting outdoors and it's my favorite because I love nature Doris and it's just to get the essence of a subject without too much. Unnecessary detail. In other words if you can get the effect with a few strokes why put in a lot of mess. Because that gets into the photographic category which is do not claim to be. And that's another art in itself. Maybe it's not only artistic but therapeutic as well. My name is so tight Alma. I've started making the list for over 40 40 years.

Since I first started. The reason why I wanted to leave was I became very ill. And was confined in the hospital for several months and before then I was the model for. But to. Be able to go out to work my older brother. Less should confess and said he had a very nice friend from Mali a Hawaiian lady who was an expert at making families. And he talked to him and while he was learning I learned from him. And since then I didn't make. Many. Many hunters bring me in. Skins but I'd like to get the whole bird because I am alive to get all the fat off the skin and treat the skin this way. I have feathers that last what 30 40 years. And she does not disappear. And the marks don't get at the

skin. When we have the skin. In a skin like this it's easy to match to make up solidly. Because a lot of people pluck this but this is like finding a needle in a haystack. It's almost impossible to match the colors and the shapes and sizes. A visit to what East by just privately owned over back in titanium. I was born in 1985. This was predicted in 1932 by my great grandmother and my grandmother. They were great owners. So this is the result of the museum. So when you clicked with my work.

Mrs. Harris something. Great great granddaughter down in 1850 that came in to come meet me. Now the chief of staff for coming on line and had three children Mary Ann and Vanessa and Jill and I'm a defendant. Fan. Of. Mount. Bridges. More troops to come. Around. Town. Just down the road and neatly. David Groomes builds his own guitar designs

inspired by the great craftsman he met while studying flamenco and classical guitar. In Spain. The real art of guitar making and I think is in the making of the instrument is not the instrument itself you can hang a guitar on the wall and go there's a nice piece of art. You know it's not it doesn't work like that so much. There are a lot of aesthetic. Aspects of the appearance of the guitar but I think the real art lies in the making of it. And. It seems like when you're when you're choosing the wood putting the guitar together you're always making these little tiny micro decisions about. How the grain running in this piece of wood. Can you visualize the three dimensional. Aspect of how the grain runs in the wood. Would it be better flip around or on its side in order to get the best cut out of the wood. And you're always making decisions and it seems like after 10 years they're almost unconscious.

It's one thing to be able to. Build a guitar that looks great sounds great and has will last a long time but it's another thing to be a success or to be able to just survive it doing it over any extended period of time. And it just boils down to being able to. Reduce your expenses without hurting quality and all. And I prefer to instead of buying. Pre-made parts or three machine wood or mill wood. The more raw material for me is a better way to go. Like for instance abalone shell and Les I just use the shell itself and work it down with metal cutting blade on the bandsaw and end up with the small pieces for inlay around the edge of the sound hole. It's probably twentieth of the cost of buying the actual

pieces from our guitar supply wholesaler. I like the humble will be hanging on a rock when somebody comes along and touches it. That little guy just shuts down on the rock hard. He probably doesn't even know why he does it and I think I'm the same way you know. I could never really need Kohala and I'm stuck here. And. I plan to be building guitars for a long time. It's not the kind of thing like construction where you kind of wear out your back when you're 40 and when you can. You do you are making good your 80 probably and probably be doing your best stuff of that time. It's a nice. Family. Once had great trees in town patches. Then later the Chinese rice

in 1946 the valleys crops and lifestyles all came to an abrupt halt when the same tidal wave that affected so many island communities leveled the land. This family knew the family and still watches for it. My name is. Clyde. Ali and they call everybody call me Kindi k i n d y. My first years in my life. Was down back in the third valley. Kind of equal. And. I think that my first remembrance of any kind of life was in on a penny. Down in the valley who lived in the valley by ourselves just our family my mom and dad brothers sisters. Just us. We had pigs and chickens were really self-sufficient and they were raised

pigs. We had chickens and all the eggs we could eat. We had a as high as all kinds of dried vegetables. I mean we live high on the whole back there. You know. It's really a good life. And. I didn't realize how great that life was. Now looking back on my mother now and until. I got married you know I learned a lot of things about women after I got married. My mom. She washed the clothes in a stream. With a stick you know. She was clothes she carried water from the well. She baked. We lived in this big hall all bread she made. She milk cows she made butter. You know. And then we had no food system so we put the butter down in the well and keep it cool.

And. My mom went out every day walked up the hill. We put the cows out of the mountains. She walked all the way up there she got those cows and brought them down. She taught the cows. Milk. And then she fed. We had pigs she fed all. Chickens. She had a lot of help. She raised these halls and fed them slopped them. She and on top of that she raised all us kids who wash their clothes whenever we went to the doctor because my mom was the. First board of health nurse on this island a boy took care of us took care of all our needs and everything and. We just just live that we live really good and then. We take a bath you know in the. In the evening. After we had. Take a bath and we had supper. My mom did all the dishes and everything and she came and sat on the

porch as she sat on the. Porch in a little trunk we had on the porch and she paid a four string banjo and. We sang every song there was in the book you know I mean we sang all the patriotic songs we sang. All the nursery rhyme songs he's saying all the old cowboy songs everything that we knew all the old Hawaiian songs. A lot of songs we sang so. By the time I went to school I was six years old and I went to school. I say I knew somewhere in the area about. Three to four hundred songs. And I had learned from my mom. So. I never lacked for a singing material in school because I learned all this at home and we sang a lot and when it was time to go to bed at night you know that's when we sang the owls lullaby.

To our way of life changing. And I'm. Like oh hello lock code for me and all my. Friends. I will never in my eyes. I will never see the things that my father have seen. Or my grandfather had seen in my kids. My grand kids will never see. This time that I saw. Because it's this time it is. All the time that I saw it's changed is no longer here. Probably when my grandkids grow up and live on the beach probably be tenement houses around somebody said hey boy you know this used to be country. Well I used to be a great country you know. But. I can see it coming. And I just hope I'm dead and gone and buried by them. And some. Will

move. And. Do. My. Job. The. Spectrum was funded in part by grants from the people of Chevron in Hawaii and the Hawaii State foundation on culture and the arts.