Inspired by Matt Gemmell’s post, I’ve turned off comments on this blog. What do you think? :-)
Hipped Roofs: Notes on the Maui architecture of Charles W. Dickey
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Charles W. Dickey, who was born on Maui, was from a kamaʻāina family and many of his buildings — plantation owners’ houses, for example — were built for the local elites.
The building style that he developed, on Maui and elsewhere, did not harken back to New England or some other imaginary place, but was instead distinctively Hawaiian. I believe that Dickey (1871-1942) did more than any one other person to shape what we think of as a distinctively Hawaiian architecture. Continue reading
Bhikkhuni: Revival of the Women’s Order
The case of the tricky captain: part two
To recap, then; our Irishman, Swinney, escapes John Bull’s navy for a whaling ship with famous owners.
Ten months later, Swinney was dead. We don’t know what happened, but whaling is a dangerous business; he could have been killed in a hunt, or fallen overboard in a gale, or died of scurvy in the course of the Kent‘s voyage. Continue reading
