The Maui Arts & Cultural Center hosts a panel discussion on Saturday, March 16 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Morgado Hall, marking the close of the Sense of Place/Place of Sense exhibit.
Despite the terrible devastation wrought by the Lahaina wildfire, there’s hope that at least part of the town’s treasured history might literally rise again from the ashes of catastrophe.
A native Utahn who fled her home in Lahaina after devastating wildfires broke out in Maui has returned to the island four months after the disaster caused widespread damage in the historic area.
To the outside world there has been no more vivid symbol of the storied history of Lahaina, and its potential for rebirth, than a 150-year-old banyan tree in the center of town whose scarred branches are now, nearly three months after a devastating wildfire, sprouting new, green leaves.