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Lyman Museum
& Mission House
276 Haili Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Phone 808.935.5021
Fax 808.969.7685
Hours: Monday - Saturday
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Mission House Tours
11:00 am and 2:00 pm
Closed on New Year's Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day
Admission
Kama`aina: $8 adults, $6 seniors, $3 children (ages 6-17), $17 family
Out-of-State: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $3 children, $21 family
University Students: $5
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Special Exhibit
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Sandwiched between India, China, and Thailand, Burma is slightly smaller than Texas with a population of 60 million people from thirteen ethnic groups. For over 2,000 years, Buddhism and the Burmese monks have been a central fixture in Burmese society, and over 80% of the country's people practice Theravada Buddhism. At the core of the local culture is "sasana," the teachings of the Buddha and the mutual obligation for all living beings. In her speeches, Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi summarizes these teachings simply as acts of kindness.
A volunteer with the Aloha Medical Mission, an organization that provides healthcare services to the underserved peoples in the Pacific, Asia, and here in Hawai`i, Dr. Steven Garon has been capturing images of the people and local culture of Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar) on his vintage Linhof view camera between 2006 and 2011. The result is a story of humanity and compassion that is timely and universal in scope.
Sasana: The Burma Portfolio, a collection of Dr. Steven Garon’s large-format black and white photographs, is on display September 7, 2012 through May 25, 2013 (extended).
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Summer Programs and Events
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| An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands: Letters of Carrie Prudence Winter, 1890—1893 May 20, 2013, 7:00-8:30 P.M. When 23-year-old Carrie Prudence Winter caught her first glimpse of Honolulu from aboard the Zealandia in October 1890, she had “never seen anything so beautiful.” She had been traveling for two months since leaving her family home in Connecticut and was at last only a few miles from her final destination, Kawaiaha`o Female Seminary, a flourishing boarding school for Hawaiian girls. The daughter of staunch New England Congregationalists, as a child Winter had dreamed of being a missionary teacher. During her three years at Kawaiaha`o Winter wrote often and at length to “beloved Charlie,” her fiancé. Her lively and affectionate letters provide not only an intimate look at 19th-century courtship in America, but many invaluable details about life in Hawai`i during the last years of the monarchy and a young woman’s struggle to establish herself in surroundings unlike anything she had ever experienced. Winter’s firsthand accounts of teaching and living with her pupils, exploring the islands on horseback, navigating the shoals of Honolulu society at all levels as well as her relationships with fellow teachers—these are as absorbing to the reader today as they would have been to her Charlie over a century ago, however different the lenses through which they are read. Equally compelling is the tale of how Winter’s letters were recently discovered (long forgotten) in an attic, meticulously transcribed and researched, and compiled in a remarkable editorial achievement by education professor Dr. Sandra Bonura and retired archivist Deborah Day. Tonight Sandra brings Carrie Prudence Winter’s years in Hawai`i to life in a presentation you won’t want to miss. $3; free to Members. |
| Camp Tarawa
June 10, 2013, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Between December 1943 and August 1945, some 55,000 U.S. Marines, Navy Corpsmen, and Seabees called the Big Island “home.” Parker Ranch leased 40,000 acres of its property to the U.S. Government for the creation of the largest Marine Corps training facility in the Pacific: Camp Tarawa. Named for the atoll in the Gilbert Islands where the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history was fought in November 1943, Camp Tarawa initially was a place of healing for the heroic men of the Second Marine Division, and of training for their upcoming missions on Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa. The Fifth Division later arrived to train for the Iwo Jima Campaign and the occupation of Japan. Camp Tarawa was more than a place name in military history, however; it had a profound and lasting effect on the people and town of Waimea, where the Camp’s tent city was located. Some 61 years later, in 2006, the Camp Tarawa Detachment Marine Corps League was formed to honor the servicemen who had trained there and to educate the public about Hawai`i Island’s importance in preparing these young men for the final terrible years of World War II. Tonight, this history is recounted and brought full circle by South Kohala resident Kathy Painton, the League’s historian and public affairs officer—and someone with her own, very personal connection to Camp Tarawa. $3; free to Lyman Museum members.
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Mission House
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The Lyman Museum began in the Lyman Mission House, originally built in 1839 for New England missionaries David and Sarah Lyman.
Nearly 100 eventful years later, in 1931, the museum was established by their descendants. Today the Mission House has been restored and is on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
The sitting-room, where the Lyman family would gather in evenings for reading and prayer.
Attic of the Lyman Mission House, built in 1856. The original (1839) `ohia roof beams are evident along with the Douglas fir beams that changed the roof line for the 1856 zinc roof.
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