Battleship Missouri Memorial, Honolulu, HI Saturday May 9th Street Grindz is sponsoring “Eat the Street” activities for the first time ever at the Battleship Missouri Memorial also known as the Mighty Mo. On Pier Foxtrot 5, at Pearl Harbor, food vendors will be available at 3:00 p.m. on the battleships 1,000-foot pier. Opening at 4:00 p.m., free limited tours will be available on the famous USS Missouri. A courtesy shuttle service over the Ford Island Bridge will be provided. Annual Wahiawa Pineapple Festival Saturday, May 9, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm The small town Hawaiian parade starts at 9 a.m. on California Avenue to the District Park. There will be floats, marching bands, and military units. At the park, about 40 craft vendors will be selling items and other vendors will be offering fresh island fruit, kettle corn, orchid plants, etc. A cultural tent will be open displaying the history of the ethnic groups that labored in the pineapple camps. The Festival has daylong free entertainment but most exciting is the 4th Annual Wahiawa Jazz Festival beginning at 2:00 p.m. This is really a “Festival within a Festival”. …show more content…
thru 06/13/2015 12:00 a.m. Hawaii Convention Center, 1801 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815 Throughout the entire month of May, music and hula events are held statewide at various hotels, venues, and on the beach. This 5th Annual Mele Mei is the celebration of Hawaii’s music, of the hula and culture. Celebration features Hawaii's best from Na Hoku Hanohano award winning artists and to Lifetime Achievement Award honorees. From traditional Hawaiian music to slack key, rock, island reggae and everything in between this event covers ukulele to steel guitar with just about something for
The history of FT. McClellan, AL began in July of 1917-1999. It was located near Anniston, AL, which was the first and only military post in that vicinity. On July 1, 1929 Camp McClellan was formally changed to Fort McClellan, which became a permanent duty assignment for active Army. Fort McClellan was named after Major General George B. McClellan, who was the General in Chief of the Army from 1861-1862. It was the first southern military installation named in honor of a northerner general. McClellan was used as a mobilization camp where soldiers of WWII trained. During WWII, McClellan was considered one of the largest military installations, where roughly half a million troops were trained. From the time that the war ended, up until the day that the based closed, McClellan had an average of 10,000 military personnel on the installation (Transition Force, 2014).
Ii, John Papa., Mary Kawena Pukui, and Dorothy B. Barrère. Fragments of Hawaiian History. Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1983. Print.
The men of the 714th Tank Battalion served their country in its greatest time of need. A key element of the 12th Armored Division, the 714th fought in harsh conditions against a desperate German enemy for five consecutive months, driving the Nazi Armies from France and back into the German heartland.
The site of the biggest home front disaster of World War II is in Port Chicago, California. This place of importance is often overlooked by many but has a great history behind it. The area is concealed by the surrounding Suisun Bay, Belloma Slough, and other bodies of water. The history of Port Chicago also includes racial issues which involve African-Americans and the cases that followed up some incidents in court until recently resolved. In Port Chicago, California stands a permanent memorial honoring the tragic unrest involving African-Americans who were treated unfairly.
The Hawaiian culture is known throughout the western world for their extravagant luaus, beautiful islands, and a language that comes nowhere near being pronounceable to anyone but a Hawaiian. Whenever someone wants to “get away” their first thought is to sit on the beach in Hawai’i with a Mai tai in their hand and watch the sun go down. Haunani-Kay Trask is a native Hawaiian educated on the mainland because it was believed to provide a better education. She questioned the stories of her heritage she heard as a child when she began learning of her ancestors in books at school. Confused by which story was correct, she returned to Hawai’i and discovered that the books of the mainland schools had been all wrong and her heritage was correctly told through the language and teachings of her own people. With her use of pathos and connotative language, Trask does a fine job of defending her argument that the western world destroyed her vibrant Hawaiian culture.
March: Wednesday at the Square Concert Series, Buku Music and Art Project, Congo Square New Worlds Rhythm Festival, Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday, Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, Taco Fest, Spring Fiesta, Hogs for the Cause
Eucalyptus Grove comes alive with the beat of the drums, sending chills of power trickling down your spine. All around you are people, over 30,000 weaving in and out of over 100 booths. Despite the tickle of your nose from the dust kicked up by the passionate dancers in the arena, you are greeted by the smell of foods representative of different tribes. The crowd is colorful in dress, face and purpose; the songs represent and evoke different emotions. You have just entered the Stanford American Indian Organization’s Annual Pow Wow.
"Molly Ockett Days Festival Beginning to Truly Honor Native Namesake." Indian Country Today Media Network.com. Gale Courey Toensing, 3 Dec. 2013. Web. 08 May 2014.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial Research Paper: The Korean War Veterans Memorial is an ominous depiction of an American squad on patrol alongside a 164 foot mural wall, to show that freedom is not free. The memorial is dedicated to those who served in the Korean War but more importantly those of them who were killed in action, are still missing in action, or were held as prisoners of war. The memorial was created by Frank Gaylord and Louis Nelson. The objective of the memorial is to remind the public of the dedication to the United States of the men and women who served in the Korean War. The memorial was designed to show the trials and tribulations that many of the military personnel faced during the war.
...Hawai`i’s economy is very dependent on tourism, however many locals are possessive of their land, and as they stereotype tourists, many do not accept others as they have a unity for their own. Numerous individuals feel the desideratum to fit the local stereotype because they prefer not to be labeled as a “haole”. It becomes tough and rather intense for an individual, because becoming haole betokens that you forgot and disregarded the local or Hawaiian quality values and ways of routes, as well as the flowing stream of life in the islands. We need to remind ourselves that regardless of where we emanate from, our skin tone, race, physical characteristics, and so forth, everybody ought to acknowledge just for who we/they are and treat one another like 'ohana and show "aloha", and subsequently, we can determinately verbally express "This is it. This is Paradise" (33).
A is not the right choice. The Battle of Manila Bay took place on May 1898. The U.S.S. Maine was destroyed on February of the same year (HistoryUnshelved). Because of this, the Maine could have not been responsible for the Spanish defeat. In reality, the credit goes to Commodore Dewey's squadron. They destroyed ten Spanish ships while only losing one U.S. sailor (HistoryUnshelved).
In the Vietnam Veterans Memorial there are many things to see. In the Vietnam Memorial there is history of how the wall was made, why the wall was built, why some women are on the wall, and shows us the casualties of the Vietnam War.
Kislenko, Arne. "Festivals and Fun." Culture and Customs of Thailand. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2004. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection. Web. 13 Feb 2014.
Warman, Janice. "How Music Festivals Are Singing the Changes." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 28 Aug. 2010. Web. Mar.-Apr. 2014.