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2 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - PBS Hawai‘i Keiki Club 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 2019 VOL. 38 NO. 10 LopakaLopaka KapanuiKapanui Hawai‘i’s “Chicken Skin” Storyteller PAGE 4 PBS HAWAI‘I Keiki Club Costume Party Join us on October 19! PAGE 18 | OCTOBER 2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Joanne Lo Grimes Vice Chair Bettina Mehnert Secretary Joy Miura Koerte These loyal supporters of Treasurer PBS Hawai‘i attended a live taping Kent Tsukamoto and got a behind-the-scenes look at a new production of our Muriel Anderson series Nā Mele: Traditions in Susan Bendon Jodi Endo Chai Hawaiian Song, featuring James E. Duffy Jr. the group Ahumanu. Matthew Emerson Jake Fergus Jason Fujimoto Jason Haruki Ian Kitajima Noelani Kalipi Kamani Kuala‘au Theresia McMurdo Ryan Kaipo Nobriga Aaron Salā Ka‘iulani Sodaro Ahumanu, a musical Bruce Voss trio from Maui, recording Kūha‘o Zane at PBS Hawai‘i’s Harry MANAGEMENT and Jeanette Weinberg Multimedia Studio. President and CEO Leslie Wilcox Senior Vice President/CFO Karen Yamamoto Vice President, Content Hawai‘i Orientation Fair Chuck Parker Vice President, Advancement Karen Cayme (left) and Jill Loving Christina Sumida of PBS Hawai‘i’s Advancement Vice President, Communications Department joined others from Jody Shiroma our community at the Hawai‘i Director, Learning Initiatives Orientation Fair at the U.S. Coast Robert Pennybacker Guard Base in Honolulu. The Chief Engineer annual event is to welcome and John Nakahira share information with military members and their families who PROGRAM GUIDE have recently arrived in Hawai‘i. Editor and Chief Programmer John Kovacich Graphic Artist Randall Choo pbshawaii.org 2 CEO MESSAGE Leslie Wilcox We Have a New Board Chair PBS Hawai‘i President and CEO Honolulu attorney Joanne Lo Grimes “I’m excited about the year ahead, as has taken the reins as Board Chair of PBS Hawai‘i completes the final year PBS Hawai‘i, succeeding Hilo business of its three-year strategic plan and leader Jason Fujimoto, who remains an develops a new strategic plan to guide active Board Member. us for the following three years.” Joanne, the former Board Vice Chair, Joanne’s fellow seasoned Board is a 2019 Women Who Mean Business officers are Vice Chair Bettina Mehnert, honoree, singled out by Pacific Business President and CEO of Architects Hawaii; News. Originally planning to go into Joanne Lo Grimes Treasurer Kent Tsukamoto, Managing business, she earned a master’s degree New Board Chair Partner of Accuity Certified Public in business administration. Later, she Accountants; and Joy Miura Koerte, found that law was her calling. Her legal a partner at Fujita & Miura Public Relations, practice makes use of her training in based on Kaua‘i. business and as a certified financial planner, as she advises businesses, And we’re so pleased to welcome nonprofit organizations and trusts. these new Board directors: She is the first woman Co-Chair and Theresia McMurdo, Chief Operating a partner of the 162-year-old law firm Officer of the IT consulting company Carlsmith Ball. In her civic life, she Cetra Technology; Ryan Kaipo Nobriga, recently served as President of the Theresia McMurdo Vice President of Finance at Hawaiian New Board Member Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i. Dredging Construction; and Kūha‘o Zane, Creative Director of Hilo-based Sig Zane I’ve seen that this wife and mother Designs and SZKaiao. of three grown children is a master at balancing goals and priorities. Despite I’m proud to work with this fine Board her many other obligations, she is fully and my skilled staff in a rapidly evolving present in her unpaid PBS Hawai‘i media landscape, mindful that we’re all Board role. She is a keen listener, here to serve the best interests of the observer and analyst, with a positive people of Hawai‘i. outlook and a remarkable ability to Ryan Kaipo Nobriga synthesize information. Embracing New Board Member Aloha nui, complex challenges, she notes that people don’t hire lawyers when the answers are clear. “These are times of great opportunity and challenge, and it’s an honor to help steward this precious community resource into the future,” Joanne says. Kūha‘o Zane New Board Member 3 | OCTOBER 2019 COVER STORY Lopaka Kapanui Hawai‘i’s “Chicken Skin” Storyteller By Liberty Peralta, PBS Hawai‘i Years ago, Lopaka Kapanui’s mother told him something he says he was “too young and arrogant” to understand. Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30 pm “A lot of work that we do is not about us,” he says his mom told him. “And if we think it’s based on us, we’re fooling ourselves. It’s about helping other people.” Telling ghost stories may be an unusual way of serving one’s community, but it’s this motivation that drives Kapanui in his work as a storyteller of legends, a mantle he’s taken up since the 2003 passing of his mentor, celebrated O‘ahu “chicken skin” storyteller, Glen Grant. “My job is not just to tell ghost stories and scare people, but also to clear up that misunderstanding of what this is all about, which is really communication,” Kapanui says. Kapanui’s life began in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kalihi, as a malnourished infant living in a station wagon with his mother and four older siblings. “They said I was about the size of a rolled-up newspaper,” Kapanui says. A family from Wai‘anae adopted the young Kapanui, who continued to battle health issues through his early childhood, to the point where he was hospitalized to flush out his kidneys. pbshawaii.org 4 My job is not just to tell ghost stories and scare people, but also to clear up that misunderstanding of what this is all about, which is really communication. Lopaka Kapanui “I’m a Buddhist, so we believe in karma,” Kapanui PORK ON THE PALI says. “I think that somewhere in my past life, I was someone who caused somebody a great deal of suffering and so maybe it was my karma early in my It’s a familiar local admonition: don’t life to go through this.” bring pork over the Nu‘uanu Pali, the cliff that separates Honolulu and Windward Kapanui says his childhood home in Wai‘anae was O‘ahu. Lopaka Kapanui breaks down the haunted. His first visual experience was when he saw story behind the story: a Japanese boy approach a stand-up oil lamp in the family’s living room and begin licking the oil from it. Legend has it that Pele, the fire goddess, A Japanese odaisan, or spiritual medium, later advised and Kamapua‘a, the pig demigod, were in a the family to get rid of the lamp. tumultuous relationship. In her rage, Pele unleashed a tidal wave of lava upon Kapanui’s lifelong sensitivity to spirits culminated in Kamapua‘a. After the demigod successfully 1994, when a coworker told him about a Glen Grant summoned the rain to hold back the lava, ghost tour. “I’m astounded, I’m flabbergasted Kamapua‘a and Pele came to an because the majority of what he was talking about are agreement: the lush Windward side of all things I already knew growing up and learned from islands would be Kamapua‘a’s domain, my mom,” Kapanui says. “But the difference was while the arid Kona sides would belong to there was documentation, history and things to back Pele. “None shall cross into the other’s up these claims, so that no one could say, ‘Well, territory,” Kapanui explains. that’s just made-up Hawaiian legends, old wives’ tales.’” So carrying pork from the Windward to the Leeward side of the Nu‘uanu Pali would So how does Kapanui manage people on his tours be symbolically trying to bring Kamapua‘a who say they don’t believe in the supernatural? “What into Pele’s territory – and Pele won’t have I always tell them is: Give me a chance to change your that. “To be more specific, you can bring mind,” he says. “You don’t have to like it; I would pork through the H-3, the Wilson and Pali encourage that you at least respect it.” tunnels, but you can’t bring it up that road at the Pali Lookout, that’s coming from the Windward [side] … there’s a road at the Pali Lookout that crosses that meridian.” 5 | OCTOBER 2019 PRIMETIME & WEEKEND LISTING SCHEDULE PBS Hawai‘i is on the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Viewers with cable service and high- definition (HD) TVs may watch PBS Hawai‘i in high-definition on Spectrum Channel 1010 or Hawaiian Telcom Channel 1011. Over-the-Air Courtesy of Quinton Smith / © Passion Planet Broadcast Channels (KHET) Channel 11.1 - 11.2 - 11.3 NATURE Octopus: Making Contact Wednesday, October 2, 8:00 pm (KMEB) Channel 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3 Discover the remarkable intelligence, personality and skills of an octopus raised Spectrum by an Alaskan professor. Basic Cable: Channel 10 HD: Channel 1010 PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 443 1 TUESDAY 9:00 NOVA Inside the Megafire (e) Hawaiian Telcom 7:30 LONG STORY SHORT WITH 10:00 WILD METROPOLIS Residents Basic Cable: Channel 11 LESLIE WILCOX Harry B. Soria Jr. (e) From pythons in Bangkok to otters HD: Channel 1011 8:00 SECRETS OF THE DEAD in Singapore, cities may seem PBS KIDS 24/7: Channel 96 Scanning the Pyramids (e) unlikely havens for wildlife, but for animals able to adapt, the urban All programs have closed-captioning.

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