Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 16 Article 9 Issue 2 October 2002 News and Notes Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation (2002) "News and Notes," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 9. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol16/iss2/9 This Commentary or Dialogue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. et al.: News and Notes MOAt ~U:~HTtN6.~ WHAT'~ N£W tN TH£ VAC-tHe, WE HAVE AN ODDITY POHNPEI to report, in regard to moai ightings. For year a fake moai sat out in front of a restau rant in Cambridge, MA with the name Aku-Aku, and which erved er atz Polyne ian food. Well, the re taurant is now a eafood place, called "Summer Shack"- but what to do about the moai out front? They added a hat, beard, pipe and fisherman's jacket, tran forming the moai into a Maine fisherman! (photo by Wil liam Liller). THE ISLAND OF POHNPEI, Federated States of Microne ia har bors the remains of four victims of the U.S. Civil War, dating OTHER MOAl ighting to 135 year ago.