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Unfamiliar fishes
Unfamiliar fishes








My education mixed Hawaiian history with weekly required chapel, Hawaiian myths with Christian ethics: seafaring Polynesia and Congregationalist Christianity. “Missionaries built this church in 1842 out of coral harvested from the reef.” My school, Punahou, had been founded by those missionaries to educate their children, and the exquisite grounds had been the gift of the royal family, which in turn married into missionary families. “This church was built of love,” the docent told us. There were field trips to Queen Emma’s summer palace and to Kawaiaha’o church.

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We studied different kinds of lava in earth sciences and wrote reports on each of the Hawaiian kings and queens. Growing up in Honolulu, my schoolmates and I painted faux tapa cloth of unbleached muslin and helped thatch a hut with pili grass.










Unfamiliar fishes