To most people, the 100-foot albizia growing on a West Maui family’s property was just a big tree. The young boy in the family looked at it and envisioned a canoe.
“Can we build a canoe?” he asked his father.
“I don’t have the knowledge or equipment to do that,” the man replied, “but maybe one day someone will come and ask for that tree to make one.”
Sadly, an accident took the boy’s life in 2003, when he was 11 years old. Six years later … More
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