Penulis: Ross W. Stephenson

Laura Ruby is the editor of Mö”ili”ili—The Life of a Community, the 2008 recipient of the Hawaii Individual Artist Fellowship (the highest honor in the visual arts), the 2015 Living Treasures of Hawaii Award, and the creator of Site of Passage—Chinatown, a large commissioned site-specific sculpture. She taught art and honors at the University of Hawaii for 34 years. Together with Ross W. Stephenson, they coauthored Honolulu Town. Ross was the former historian for the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources and was keeper of the Hawaii Register of Historic Places. He holds both his doctorate and master”s in urban planning focusing on the development history of Honolulu.