Wailuku Library
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
C.W. Dickey, 1928

The heartbreaking loss suffered by the Lahaina community includes the heavily damaged Lahaina Library, one of eight libraries in the Hawaii State Public Library System in the County of Maui. The oldest of these libraries is the Wailuku Library, which owes its existence to the Maui Woman's Club. Members of the club urged Maui senator Harold Rice to introduce and oversee the territorial legislature's passage of the County Library Law in 1921, and subsequently the appropriation of funding to construct this building.

On the National Register of Historic Places, the Library was designed by one of Hawaii's most influential architects of the time, Charles William Dickey, and opened on Aug. 6, 1929. It was described in the Maui News as having “an attractive front elevation that may be called Hawaiian.” The single-story library appears more as a house than a public building with its expansive, sheltering hipped roof. The walls are plaster with long, thin casement windows. The entryway has a mosaic tile water fountain depicting a silversword, a native plant only found on the slopes of Haleakala.

46th Annual Book Sale is here!
Saturday, August 26, 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 27, 10:30 a.m. - sunset. Free books after 2 p.m.!

You won’t want to miss the opportunity to browse through these books, mostly hardcover, donated from Norfolk’s private libraries. Proceeds benefit the Norfolk Library Associates and support the Library’s free cultural programs. We thank everyone who has donated books. We will be accepting books for next year's sale beginning next week.
Thank you for your support!

Ensemble Chaconne: The Music of Shakespeare's Plays
Saturday, September 9, 5:30 p.m.

The internationally-acclaimed Ensemble Chaconne transports audiences to Shakespeare’s world with Measure for Measure: The Music of Shakespeare’s Plays.  The concert features music by leading composers of Shakespeare’s time (Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley, John Dowland, and others) with songs from As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth on period instruments. The ensemble members are Peter H. Bloom, renaissance flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, renaissance lute; and mezzo-soprano Burcu Gulec.  Their Shakespeare concert has been called “the perfect Elizabethan evening” (The Portland Press Herald).

Ensemble Chaconne has given more than 85 performances of the Shakespeare concert. Among the many selections are “The Willow Song” sung by Desdemona in Othello; “It Was a Lover and His Lasse” (As You Like It);  “O Mistress Mine” (Twelfth Night); “Full Fathom Five” (The Tempest), “Go from My Window” from Ophelia’s mad scene in Hamlet; and "Greensleeves," the famous ballad tune (quoted in The Merry Wives of Windsor).

To find out more and to register for this free concert, please visit here.

Celebrate our National Parks with our National Park Popularity Contest. For our August challenge, we've matched up sixteen National Parks, and we want you to vote for your favorite. The final round of voting takes place through Wednesday, August 30, and the Most Popular Park will be announced in the Night Owl on September 1, as well as through social media. All voting participants will be entered into a drawing to win a Passport to Your National Parks Guidebook. Click here to vote.

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