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Reading ’Riggers
By Nancy Lueck
By Gerry DeBenedetti
MAY STEW & RICE TUESDAY, MAY 19, CHECK-IN 5PM, $30 ++ PER PERSON Every Picture Tells A Story: Bob Sigall’s Favorites Honolulu Advertiser “Rearview Mirror” columnist Bob Sigall has spent decades preserving the rich visual history of Hawai’i, amassing an extraordinary collection of more than 20,000 historical photographs. Each image captures a moment in time—stories of everyday life, forgotten places, and pivotal events that shaped the islands we know and love today. In this special presentation, Sigall takes us on a journey as he shares “My Favorite Photos.” From rare and little-seen snapshots to iconic scenes that will spark nostalgia, each photograph comes alive through his engaging storytelling. You’ll enjoy a unique window into the people, places, and moments that define the spirit of our islands. This is a chance to see history in a way you’ve never experienced before. JUNE STEW & RICE TUESDAY, JUNE 23, CHECK-IN 5PM, $30 ++ PER PERSON Saving Global Biodiversity: The Race to Document the World’s Greatest Library Dive into the exploration of coral reef systems with Bishop Museum ichthyologists Dr. Richard Pyle and Brian D. Greene, who will share their insights and experiences using the latest technologies to document coral reef habitats before they vanish. Global biodiversity is the most valuable resource on Earth for the future of humanity—providing the oxygen we breathe, the food we eat, and half of all new medicines—while sequestering a quarter trillion tons of CO 2 annually. It represents the greatest library on Earth, containing the accumulated wisdom of billions of years of evolution. Tragically, this library is burning, as climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, overexploitation, and other factors converge to drive Earth’s sixth great extinction event. Each species that goes extinct is like burning the last copy of a book, forever losing whatever secrets it contained. Our speakers, Pyle and Greene, are protégés of former Bishop Museum ichthyologist John E. “Jack” Randall, considered the world’s leading authority
There’s always time for a good book between your summer activities, and coming up, we have some authors who will keep your whodunit muscles well occupied!
JUNE 5 Three titles by Vernon Woo: The Paradise Pursuit, The Paradise Dispute, and The Paradise Refute OCC member Vernon Woo will share fictional tales of real estate scheming and high-end development in Kaka‘ako. The child of a Shanghai silk merchant, Woo grew up in Honolulu’s Chinatown with a storytelling father. He went on to attend Punahou, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and Harvard Law School, and is now a real estate attorney.
on coral reef fishes. Both have dedicated their lives to exploring and documenting organisms that live on coral reefs and, along with Randall and others, established the Center for the Exploration of Coral Reef Ecosystems (EXCORE) at Bishop Museum. Humanity is in a race to document Pacific Ocean biodiversity before it is lost forever, and there has never been greater urgency to pick up the pace.
RSVP on the OCC website, app, or by calling the Front Desk. Open seating; tables reserved for parties of 10 only.
10 AMA | MAY/JUNE 2026
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