H.N. Greenwell Store Museum closes for exhibit installation
The H.N. Greenwell Store Museum in Kealakekua will be closed starting today and continuing through March 27 as the Kona Historical Society prepares a special exhibit.
Sharing the rich history of coffee in Kona through the eyes of families and farmers who built the lucrative industry, Kona Historical Society will present the award-winning exhibit, “The Kona Coffee Story: Along the Hawaii Belt Road.” The exhibit is slated to run March through November in the H.N. Greenwell Store Museum.
The H.N. Greenwell Store Museum’s regular programming is temporarily discontinued while Kona Historical Society Collections staff installs “The Kona Coffee Story: Along the Hawaii Belt Road” and while this exhibit is running in the historic general store museum. Kona Historical Society apologizes for any inconvenience the temporary closure may cause. As an alternative, Kona Historical Society encourages the public to explore its other historic site, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm in Captain Cook, as well as participate in its educational programs such as the Portuguese Stone Oven Bread Baking Program and Hanohano O Kona Lecture Series.
Info: 323-3222, www.konahistorical.org.
Read Aloud Shakespeare group meets
The Read Aloud Shakespeare group meets from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Keauhou.
The group will resume reading “Richard II” at Act 2, Scene 3. Shakespeare fan are welcome to bring a copy of the play and join in. Attendees take turns reading the parts. No previous Shakespeare or acting ability is required.
Call Joy Vogelgesang, 557-0694 by noon Wednesday for information.
Civics contest open to high school students
A civics contest organized by the federal courts of the western United States offers high school students a chance to win cash prizes while learning more about constitutional conflicts that arose during one of the most momentous periods in our nation’s history.
“Not to Be Forgotten: Legal Lessons of the Japanese Internment” is the theme of the 2017 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest, an essay and video competition open to students in grades 9-12 in public, private and parochial schools and home-schooled students of equivalent grade status. The contest is sponsored by the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii and the Courts and Community Committee of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit.
The entry deadline is 11:50 p.m. on April 16.
Info: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/civicscontest, U.S. District Court, (808) 541-1178, clerkofcourt@hid.uscourts.gov.