ISLAND HOPPING
New museum brings isle history to life
The newly opened Story of Hawaii Museum, Gift Shop and Gallery in Maalaea, Maui, will use ancient maps, documents, artifacts and live storytelling to impart Hawaii’s history and legends.
The museum displays tell Hawaii’s story in chronological order "so you can follow the history of Hawaii just by taking a stroll around the exhibit," according to a release. The exhibits include rare prints, maps and antiques, some of which are hundreds of years old, the release said.
Beginning in September, the museum will launch Hawaiian History Evenings, storytelling presentations by Mele Fong, historian for the Ahahui Ka‘ahumanu Chapter IV, the royal order of Hawaiian women that honors the memory of Queen Kaahumanu.
The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $7 for adults, $5 for children under 12 years old, and includes a DVD about the mapping of Hawaii. Tours led by docents cost $10 per person. The museum is at Maalaea Harbor Village, 300 Maalaea Road.
For details, call 283-3576 or visit www.storyofhawaiimuseum.com.
Waikoloa Marriott offers deal to locals
Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa is offering a "Sun and Fun" kamaaina package through Sept. 29.
The package starts from $169 per night and includes a garden-view room, complimentary self-parking and a $100 food and beverage credit to be used at Hawaii Calls Restaurant and Lounge, Sunset Luau Dinner and Show, Kona Coffee Shoppe and room service.
The offer applies to reservations made now through Sept. 29. A two-night minimum stay is required for stays from Sept. 1 through Oct. 1.
For information or reservations, call 886-6789.
GLOBE TROTTING
Picasso exhibit to fill hotel lobby
INDIANAPOLIS » An Indianapolis hotel is displaying more than two dozen prints by Pablo Picasso that span the Spanish artist’s career.
The Sept. 7-Oct. 14 exhibit at the Conrad Indianapolis will feature 25 prints Picasso made between 1905 and 1968. The exhibit in the hotel’s lobby will also include an original drawing.
Many of the works were influenced by some of the women Picasso had relationships with during his long life. He died in 1973 at age 91.
A second exhibit in the hotel’s first-floor gallery event space, The Alcove, will include a series of posters authorized by Picasso but which were created with a printer’s help. Both exhibits are open to the public and are free.
Park plans ‘flying’ roller coaster
SANDUSKY, Ohio » Northern Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park has announced plans for a "winged" roller coaster designed to make riders feel like they’re flying.
The GateKeeper coaster is the park’s first new one since 2007. It is set to be finished before next season.
With a 163-foot vertical drop and speeds of 67 mph, the blue-steeled tubular coaster will have riders on seats that extend sideways from the track, with nothing above or below them.
The coaster will be built at the main entrance and will pass over arriving guests as it inverts riders and sends them upside down.
GateKeeper is part of a roughly $30 million project overhauling the park’s entrance. That includes tearing down Disaster Transport, a longtime indoor coaster that was attracting fewer riders as maintenance costs increased.
Resorts sell passes for 4 ski states
DENVER » Four of the top ski destinations in the West are offering a single pass for the upcoming season.
The resorts include Alta in Utah, Aspen/Snowmass in Colorado, Jackson Hole in Wyoming and Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows in California.
The Mountain Collective Pass will cost $349 and includes two free days at each of the four destinations, plus a 50 percent discount on unlimited lift tickets at each one.
Aspen Skiing Co. Vice President Christian Knapp said Tuesday the collective pass is a new concept that gives winter sports enthusiasts a wide range of choices.
