The Wo Hing Society and LRF conducted the Chinese Lunar New Year event, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the Kite Festival, and many other celebrations that the community loved to attend. Remarkably, a sizable collection of the society’s old documents was discovered at the Wo Hing Society Hall in 1983 when the LRF restored the buildings. The work on those records started in 1999. With support from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, the County of Maui, the LRF, and Wo Hing Society, the work continued to preserve and translate them. The collection comprises 2000 documents, besides 103 traditional Chinese booklets, and is part of the research material that was archived months before the fire.
We hope we can recreate and revamp what Wo Hing used to be. The work that we do, preserving history, is still there to do. We are optimistic that we can organize it and continue to share it with the world. We will invite people to come and join different research platforms, continue to do the translations, and help us interpret the message our ancestors would like us to share. We want to continue to bring knowledge and wisdom to the community and the world. With trust in the future, with hope, when the time is right, we will rebuild.