Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 5, 1 May 1992 — Workshops offered on cultural interpretation [ARTICLE]

Workshops offered on cultural interpretation

Two, three-day community workshops on new perspectives in interpreting, understanding or teaching Hawaii's cultural and historical environment are being sponsored by the University of Hawai'i summer session.

A Foxfire workshop is scheduled July 8-10 with Eliot Wiggington, founder of Foxfire, a project that has produced the nine-volume book "Fnxfire "

The Mission Houses Museum will be the primary source for participants for the 19th-centu-ry "Missionary Period." The workshops, from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., will take plaee at the museum. The course fee is $25. Urban archeology is the topic for the July 23-

25 workshop, also at the Mission Houses Museum. The $40 workshop fee includes a free Polaroid camera and materials. Students will discover the visual history of downtown Honolulu. Tom Dye, archeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office, will share information on the recent dig at the King Kamehameha eompound. To register, eall the University of Hawai'i - Manoa Summer Session at 956-4064.