Share Experience the Slower Side of Maui on a Road Trip Through the Heart of the Island Away from the beachfront resorts, Maui s inland called the Upcountry is often overlooked, but offers alluring boutiques, restaurants, and places to stay. By Jen Murphy February 27, 2021
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Malu Manu is arguably Maui s most magnificent lookout. At this 1920s log cabin rental, set 4,000 feet up on the west-facing slopes of the Haleakala volcano, guests can gaze down upon the island s northern and western coasts, as well as the craggy ridges of the West Maui Mountains. On my first night there, the weather was chilly enough to warrant putting on a puffy jacket and throwing kiawe wood in the cabin s stone fireplace. That evening, a wel
Everything Old Is New Again
December 22, 2020
Story by Kathy Collins
A dollar sign embedded in the pavement marks the entrance to National Dollar Store in this 1960 photo of Main Street, Wailuku. Today the building is home to the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. Happily, the dollar sign remains. WAYNE TANAKA PHOTO COURTESY OF GAIL TANAKA; COURTESY OF GOOGLE STREET
Having grown up here in the 1950s and ’60s, I sometimes okay, often wax nostalgic about the Maui of my youth, when the resident population was a quarter of today’s, folks waited patiently on two lane roads for drivers headed in opposite directions to finish chatting, and TV shows arrived by plane a week after airing on the mainland. Time has brought many changes, but vestiges of that sweeter, simpler Maui remain, among them several venerable buildings that have been preserved, restored and brilliantly repurposed. These grand old dames brimming with new life comfort and inspire me. As an aging structure myself, I’m