Maydean Bowman
Maydean Bowman
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Maydean Bowman shares her memories visiting her grandfather in Mahukona, where her mom was born. She recounts her courtship with her husband Kimo and living in the Bowman house on Union Mill Road. Maydean helped dedicate the new Mauna Kea Hotel and performed hula there for a while. She talks of her love of hula, taking classes from famed Kumu Hula Edith Kanaka‘ole, and the early days of Merrie Monarch. Maydean believes that hula is not just about dancing, but about spreading aloha and love of Hawaii and recounts how she traveled the world to spread this love.
Introduction and Memories of Visiting Mahukona
Bowman describes the roles of her her family members on the plantation and visiting Mahukona as a child.Photo credit: Kealoha Sugiyama
Describes the geological formation of Hawai'i island.
Photo credit: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Describes the Bowman House on Union Mill Road and interesting “guests” who came to visit at night.
Photo credit: The Local Arrow
Photo credit: The Local Arrow
Remembers her first kumu, Edith Kanaka'ole, and her travels around the world as a hula dancer.
Photo credit: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Describes dancing hula at the dedication of the Mauna Kea Hotel in 1965.
Photo credit: maunakearesort.com
Photo credit: maunakearesort.com
Describes the new industries that were tried in Kohala after the plantation started to phase out.
Photo credit: National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gives advice to the future generations: dance hula and spread the aloha.
Photo credit: Ron Ardis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Ron Ardis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Additional resources
Additional resources
About the Bowmans
About the Bowmans
The Librarian from Beverly Hills - story about Betty Bowman
Historic Plantation Manager's Estate For Only $1M - pictures and description of the Bowman House
Places
Places
Mahukona
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
Hula and the Merrie Monarch
Hula and the Merrie Monarch
Addition topics mentioned
Addition topics mentioned
Transcript
Transcript
Credits and video information
Credits and video information
Recording date: 7/2/22
Location: Kamahemeha Park, Kohala Reunion, Kohala
Videographer: Lucas Manuel-Scheibe
Editor: Misia Palad, Hawai'i Community College
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