June 8, 2006, 7:06 p.m. (Message 45471)
Should you plan to be in Southern California in August... It's time to mark your calendars and make ready those blue muumuus and assorted Hawaiian garb for the one time each year when flowered prints and tartan plaids blend in perfect harmony. It's once again the San Gabriel Valley Branch's annual Scottish Luau Saturday, August 19th, 7:30 p.m. Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church 2109 Chickasaw Avenue Eagle Rock District of Los Angeles $6.00 RSCDS / $8.00 nonmember DANCE PROGRAM The Chief of *Anahola's Rule BJ Bubbles in the Lagoon IS The *Ala Moana Reel AJ Sleepless in *Woodlawn IS The *Pali Airdrome IR Blue *Muumuus BJ The *Sand Island Bridge of Honolulu IS The Tiki Torch of the North AJ The Sunny Winter AS The Rule of the Royal Hawaiians BR My Mother's Paddling In BR Casting Fishnets IS *Poi and *Taro Chips AJ *Liliuokalani's Strathspey IS The *Haole *Wahine IJ Extras: Flights of *Nenes IJ Duncan The Gray Whale IR footnotes: *Anahola is a small town on the northeast coast of Kauai. *Ala Moana is the district of Honolulu between downtown and Waikiki. It has long been the location of a large well-known shopping center. *Woodlawn is a residential district of Honolulu upstream from Waikiki and below Sugarloaf. *Pali means cliff in the Hawaiian language. *Muumuu is the loose traditional Hawaiian dress originally designed by missionaries to cover what they deemed excessive native female exposure. *Sand Island separates Honolulu Harbor from the Pacific; on it are a state recreational area and a Coast Guard base. *Poi is the traditional Hawaiian staple made from wetland taro roots; dryland taro is used for fried chips. *Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of Hawaii as an independent kingdom. *Haole means Caucasian in the Hawaiian language (all of whom or whose ancestors are of course relatively recent immigrants); wahine means woman ("lass"). *The nene, a.k.a. Hawaiian goose, is the state bird. [The Lord of Atholl's Reel, Bubbles in the Pond, the Alexandria Reel, Sleepless in Brentwood, the Palindrome, Blue Bonnets, the Dean Bridge of Edinburgh, The Lantern of the North, The Gloomy Winter, the Reel of the Royal Scots, My Mother's Coming In, Casting Glances, Rice and Lefse, Linnea's Strathspey, The Immigrant Lass, Flights of Fancy, Duncan Gray] (directions to the location gladly upon request) Robb Quint Thousand Oaks, CA, USA