[Singing ʻĀlika] Aia i ʻĀlika Hello.

This is Charlotte Felita.

This week, Pau Hana Years features our kupuna from the  islands of Maui and Kauaʻi while on Maui, the Lahaina Senior Citizen Club performed for  us on the grounds of The Hyatt Regency Maui.

Ke kaula likini 
ʻAluʻalu ʻole iho 
Nā peʻa i ka makani 

ʻAʻole i kau pono 
Ka newa i ka  piko 
Kaʻa ʻē ka huila 
E niniu i ka makani 
Haʻina ʻia mai 
Ana ka puana  
Aia i ʻĀlika 
Ka ihu o ka moku [Instrumental music] Trees grow abundantly and blossoms bloom all  year round in the state of Hawaiʻi, where our kūpuna are the inspiration and the sunshine  of our lives.

While on the island of Maui, Paul honey years visited the Kaunoa Senior  Center in Spreckelsville, where approximately 300 seniors gather to participate in various  leisure programs of arts and crafts.

Formerly the Kaunoa Elementary School, the Kaunoa Senior  Center has been the meeting place for our kūpuna for the past three years, where the center is  open each morning, Mondays through Thursdays.

Each person is encouraged by the many instructors  to participate in whatever craft that they, may turn on their fancy, like those who have realized  that they no longer are only artists at heart.

[Instrumental music] They have become masters of many arts,  such as crocheting and all year round, they make holiday decorations, either  for themselves and families or to give as gifts or to sell at their annual holiday sale.

Great [Instrumental music] Weaving baskets and containers of all  kinds, and even table lamps has become a popular and favorite art with many of  our kūpuna at the Kaunoa Senior Center.

Each face beams with delight at the site of  a finished product.

And all through the day, the instructors, as well as the learning  kūpuna wear smiling faces and a happy heart.

Great [Singing in Hawaiian] The kupunas interested in ceramics work with as  much enthusiasm for the craft as the strumming ukulele players in the class next door.

They  call on their imagination to create a variety of pieces with their hands.

And ceramic molds are  also available for those who prefer to use them.

[Instrumental music] And little doll faces blush as the little women  work diligently to sew decorated apparel for them.

[Instrumental music] Not to be outdone, even the men  take a chance at crocheting small blankets or wraps.

[Instrumental music] [Singing Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua] Aia i Pauoa ka liko ka lehua
Ka  ʻiʻini pau ʻole a ka makemake Makemake no au aʻe i ka lihi I ka lawe haʻaheo a ke kīkala Pālua, pākolu i ke kekona
I  ka hoʻi ʻākau hoʻi i ka hema Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka  puana
Aia i Pauoa ka liko lehua [Instrumental music] I’m Angeline Tamaribuchi from Kekaha, Kauaʻi.

And I’m Kiyono Hoʻokano from Makaweli  Kauaʻi.

And we are doing a haiku lei today.

We are using ti leaf for our base and  we have ferns in it.

And we are also using bougainvillea flowers.

And we are wili-ing  the, uh winding with this thread, which, it’s a modern way of doing it.

And because of  these flowers, bougainvillea, are so easy to get, and we’re using it today.

Angeline is also making  one and I think she’d like to explain furthermore.

I’m doing the same thing as Kiyono is doing  only using different combinations of colors that whatever you think is attractive and it's more  eye appealing.

And so and it's with ti leaves, ferns—we usually get ferns from the mountains, but  today we're using just our backyard material.

And this is that same lei like Kiyono is doing with  the ti leaf backing and all.

And this is another type of lei.

This is the hili or braid.

And you  just braid like you braid the hair.

Usually we get the ferns form the mountains, the palapalai.

And  that’s really beautiful.

And that’s what they use for the headbands when they dance.

And, but today  we just took fishtails from our backyard.

Since we don’t have the, we can’t get to the mountains  all the time.

So that’s what, that’s how you go about it, just braid and take your time and add  as you go along.

When it gets to that length, you put another leaf in, braid it and come back  and start another leaf and go on.

Some folks will use flowers.

If you have flowers with long stem,  you can add as you're braiding and go on and on, you see.

And then it has that effect and different  whatever colors you have put it in, just so the the stems are long that you can do.

So they’re  different types.

They have the will, which you have to have, maybe raffia, that, to get a firm  base.

Or lauhala, maybe—a stem.

And then, then you put your flowers around like this, and then get  the thread and round and turn around.

But we’re not doing that today, because we're not ready for  that type of lei.

So we’re just concentrating on this, this type of of lei.

which I noticed that  they use quite a bit of the headbands nowadays.

Well, uh, going back to the haiku and wili,  we, we use all types.

And we try to use the flowers that don’t, that’ll last, like  the bougainvillea.

When you make the lei with the bougainvillea, it dries, and  then you can use it for maybe a week, and you can use it for your headbands, and  it makes beautiful leis for the headband.

We’re up at the Wong's Care Home in the Kawaihao  district of Kauaʻi.

And we’d hope to be able to show the Kapaʻa Senior Center entertaining up here  at the care home outside, but the weather that's keeping our island so green is also keeping  us from doing that, so everything's wet, and we'll be taking you inside for the entertainment  for Kapaʻa Senior Center at Wong’s Care Home.

[Japanese music] We’re at the Hanapepe Senior Recreational  Center and we have various seniors here from all over the island of Kauaʻi.

With me is Mr.

Ricardo Gascon, who is teaching the seniors how to  make bamboo baskets, which is the only bamboo weaving class in the state of  Hawaiʻi.

Mr.

Gascon, you come from where?

On dis (inaudible) Philippines?

I come from the Philippines.

The Philippines.

This where you learn how to make?

I learned dis kine when I was in grammar school.

Grammar school.

Yeah.

CF: But, now you work for the senior center,  Kauaʻi Senior Center, and you teach all the other people?

Yeah, yes.

Yeah.

The bamboo, where you get bamboo from?

I take from the mountain.

All by yourself or you go with other people?

I go, go myself, with da kine,  if somebody come help me.

Somebody help you.

Yeah, somebody help me.

How big the bamboo?

When you  pick bamboo, how wide, big?

This is da kine bamboo what we need.

That kine?

What kine you call dis bamboo?

Uh, I don’t know dis… The green.

The big one, cannot use the small bamboo, then?

No, you cannot.

Cannot.

Okay, the big bamboo you must… This one da kine we can use, dis kine bamboo.

Okay, only the, only this.

Dis, there are plenty kinds bamboo.

Uh huh.

There are yellow and another kind bamboo.

Only green.

But this is the best for… The best one.

…make basket, yeah.

You cut bamboo here and here?

The weaving is like this long, see?

Uh huh.

But the spoke, yeah, you cut the two joints, see.

Where the joints… Yeah, over hea.

Dis da joint, eh?

Uh huh.

You cut.

Dis da between the joints here  you cut two to make the spoke.

And then the spoke, spokes is  underneath?

Okay this spoke.

Yeah, dis da spoke, eh?

Then you split them.

You split from ova hea?

Yeah, yeah.From the bamboo.

Yeah, you cut them and now whole  bamboo you cut them with… You’ll have all pa- pa- all packed.

You cut with the, with the big With the cane knife?Yeah, big cane knife.

Cane knife, okay.And then you split them Wait I gon’ put dis out so you  show me how, how make the, uh, the bamboo.

And you split, you split em… Then you split em like this, wide, eh.

The you clean em, take out the skin.

How you clean, with what?

Look, look.

Everybody get knife over here.

Yeah.

You cut em like this.

You clean em like this, see?

Okay, all pau.

Like this, like this thick, eh?

Yeah.

Bend little bit, no break.

No break, see?

Uh huh.

Not gon’ break because dis one good bamboo.

Okay, so you show me how you make basket.

How you start, how you make, you teach everybody, huh?

Yeah, I teach everybody.

Everybody, show me how.

Get one, one side.

You just cross over one.

Across?

Yeah, crossing.

Cross again?

Then cross again.

Cross again.

Cross like dat.

How many in all we have, now?

Six.

We made six, yeah.

Six?

You cross like that?

But if you make bigger basket you can use eight.

Oh, more you make, bigger basket.

Yeah, yeah.

More you big you make you, you, make more, you need more spoke.

Then, after you make this what happen?

After you make this you glue or what?

You gon’, you gon’ weave da kine.

With the… What’s this, what kine?

A  plastic telephone wire?

Telephone wire.

Where you get the telephone wire from?

We just, we just pick up from the garbage pile.

Oh!

Throw away.

From the, from the rubbish pile.

Yeah.

Oh, smart.

Okay We gon’ tie them up with dis one.

You tie each one, one time?

Yeah.

Ah, go underneath.

Underneath.

You tie up?

Up.

One go under one go up.

Back and forth, huh?

Yeah, yeah.

Oh.

Okay.

How long you, uh, you make basket, you said since you small, small boy?

Since I stay in the grammar school.

Grammar school in the Philippines?

I was, ten years old, I think.

And what you, uh, come to Hawaiʻi, how long?

Then I come to Hawaiʻi, 1927.

I was  20 years old when I come Hawaiʻi.

20 years old?

Yeah.

And what, you work in a cane field or what?

I work in the cane field, truck driver.

Truck driver.

You bring family?

Until I retire.

How long?

How long to make one basket?

It take about one week.

One week.

Yeah.

Work how long, how many hours a week?

(Inaudible) You work about four hours.

Four hours?

Yeah, one week.

Mr.

Gascon, got plenty, plenty baskets over here.

All different sizes, all different shapes.

Ah, what we use, can use em for plenty  things.

For what mostly they use for?

Uh, it is up to say, to them to use… What, how they like?

Yeah.

How they like.

Some they put… Some plant the basket.

They put plant.

For put plants.

They put vegetable.

Uh huh.

Vegetables.

Fruit basket, uh, purse?

Purse too, yeah.

Thatʻs the one they use em for purse, yeah.

Groceries.

For what, groceries?

Yeah, they can put the… Put little bit things, uh, storage?

Yeah.

You make some have covers, too?

Waste basket.

Waste basket?

This basket get covers.

Because that one is the waste basket.

Big one you make mostly for waste basket?

Yeah, yeah.

K, Mr.

Gascon you said this basket for fishing, huh?

Um, you put inside, you close, you put fish inside here, then fish no jump up.

Oh, thatʻs nice.

So all these, everybody working hard I see over here.

Everybody working hard.

Yeah, yeah.

Every, every week they come, you go every week or?

Every week.

Every week they’re taught.

Yeah.

So maybe people other places  watch you folks can learn too.

Yeah, I go every day every place.

You go all over Kauaʻi.

Yeah all over Kauaʻi.

All over Kauaʻi, teach.

Oh you good man, you.

You enjoy the work?

Yeah, I enjoy it very much.

Okay, thank you so much.

You so, you  so nice to be helpful to everybody.

Okay, thank you.

We bid aloha to our friends on Maui and the Garden Island where country living beckons throughout the city streets.

She’ll be coming around the mountain She’ll be coming around the mountain She’ll be coming around  the mountain when she comes She’ll be riding six white horses when she comes She’ll be riding six white horses when she comes She’ll be riding six white horses She’ll be riding six white horses She’ll be riding six white horses when she comes We will kill the old red rooster when she comes We will kill the old red rooster when she comes We will kill the old red rooster We will kill the old red rooster We will kill the old red rooster when she comes She’ll be coming around  the mountain when she comes She’ll be coming around  the mountain when she comes She’ll be coming around the mountain She’ll be coming around the mountain She’ll be coming around  the mountain when she comes From this valley they say you are going,
I shall miss your bright  eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That  has brightened my path for a while.

Come and sit by my side if you love  me;
Do not hasten to bid me adieu,
But remember the Red River Valley,
And  the cowboy that loves you so true.

From this valley they say you are going,
I will  miss your bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That  has brightened my path for a while.

[Singing Show Me The Way To Go Home] Show me the way to go home, 
I'm tired and I want to go to bed, I had a little drink about an hour ago, 
And  it’s gone right to my head, 
Wherever I may roam, 
On land or sea or foam, 
You can always hear  me singing a song, 
Show me the way to go home.

Show me the way to go home, 
I'm  tired and I want to go to bed, I had a little drink about an hour  ago, 
And it’s gone right to my head, 
Wherever I may roam, 
On land or sea or foam, 
You can always hear me singing a song,