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wcerto
Ahonui
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 Posted - 07/14/2007 : 10:35:42 AM
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From the Aloha Kaikua `Ana CD is one of John's mele, Tutu's Slack Key. That is a beautiful song which speaks of the importance of learning from our kupuna.
Paul and I were talking about learning the stories from our elders. More better if it is written, but if not, at least urge the younger ones to listen to the tutu. Tell the stories yourselves as well. That way, at least they are in memory, if not recorded somehow for posterity. Tomorrow we will be celebrating his mother's ninetieth birthday with a gathering and dinner with the extended `ohana. I made a scrapbook of her family pictures, earliest of which is her first communion picture in 1929. I took all her old pictures, even those which were pasted in those old photo albums with the black pages and the black photo corners. I scanned them on the computer and fixed them up with my photo software. Fixed lots of bad exposures, scratches and tears. We had one picture of Paul's father from WWII which Paul carried with him to Viet Nam. He had a small wallet sized photo wrapped in saran wrap of all things, to protect it. I had to carefully peel the saran wrap off. Some of the photo flaked off with it, but through the magic of modern technology, I was able to repair the photo and made a pretty nice enlargement of it. We will have this album on display tomorrow at the party as a chronicle of her life and to pay honor to all those who are no longer with us. The book has 100 pages, but I have plenty more to fill up probably another two or three scrapbooks. This will also be a way for the newer generations to see their kupuna and to talk story about them. As long as they are in our memories and spoken of, they are not truly gone. One uncle -- her brother, was killed in WWII. He was a navigator in the 100th Bomb Group. The entire crew was KIA over Germany. This was Uncle Joey's first mission, a few weeks short of D-Day. We found information through the internet which gave the story of how the tragedy came to happen, with stories from eye-witnesses. I documented this in the scrapbook, as well as the obituary from the local newspaper several years later when they had his body brought home to be buried. Once again, through the magic of the internet, I found the obituary on line.
Here is a web site that is helpful if you want to wala`au with kupuna and document their history. http://www.youthsource.ab.ca/teacher_resources/oral_question.html
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2007 : 06:06:45 AM
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I learned some old tunes on the buttonbox from my Grandfather on my Mom's side. I was the only grandkid that had an interest. The first one I saw slack the strings on a guitar was my Grandma from northern Sweden, she used a tuning from back home. I didn't understand guitar then, so I didn't learn the tuning. My Dad was a musician and I learned a bunch from him. My Mom could sing good harmony. There was life outside of TV and pop-culture.
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2007 : 5:59:35 PM
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Originally posted by wcerto
From the Aloha Kaikua `Ana CD is one of John's mele, Tutu's Slack Key. That is a beautiful song which speaks of the importance of learning from our kupuna.
No kidding - always makes Momi waimaka. |
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