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It’s Monday, December 24 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation…

Red hot or Ho hum...a temperature check of holiday retail.

Fred Paine is the General Manager of Pearlridge Center. He has been with the Center since 2005. During his tenure, he moved with Pearlridge during the recent ownership change two years ago. And, yes Christmas Eve will find him where a lot of love of shopping lights will be glowing... his mall.

Painting with letters: the Hawaii correspondence of Georgia O'Keefe.

Jennifer Saville has edited and annotated Off in the Far Away: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Letters Home from Hawai`i for the Hawaiian Journal of History.

The very best gift: A veteran gets a new life.

 Chanel White - not her real name-  is mother, veteran and survivor. As with many working houseless, Chanel doesn want her employer to know her real identity, but she wanted to help others get to at least where she is now because of the help she has received from the Power Up program of Mental Health America of Hawaii.

Fleeting fame and recent rediscovery: Kamamalu gets her share of history.

J. Susan Corley‘s article Queen Kamāmalu’s Place in Hawaiian History will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Hawaiian Journal of History.

Plus the world report from the BBC, bright lights in the backyard and today’s reality check, too...all after the news… from NPR.