ISLAND HOPPING
Maritime Festival offers oceanic fun for everyone
The annual Maritime Festival in Salem, Mass., which celebrates ships, sailors and all things oceanic, is scheduled for Aug. 3-4.
The event features live music, tall ships, historical re-enactments, interactive family programs and crafts.
The festival takes place at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, 193 Derby St.
The free concert portion of the festival starts at 5 p.m. Aug. 3, with the rest of the festival on Aug. 4, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit nps.gov/sama/index.htm.
Maui hotel guide is available online
The Maui Accommodations Guide has just released its quarterly "Special Values E-Alert," listing the latest bargains offered by Maui hotels, condos, villas, cottages and bed-and-breakfast inns.
The guide can be viewed at www.MauiAccommodations.com.
Tour will explore historic Volcano Architect Boone Morrison will lead a tour of historic homes and properties in Volcano Village beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Many of the structures built in the early 1900s remain in good condition and several have been restored.
William Chapman, director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, also will be on the tour.
Volcano Community Foundation and Volcano Art Center are co-sponsors of the tour. The fee is $40, which includes transportation within the Village and a light lunch. For reservations, contact volcanocommunity@ gmail.com or call 967-7366.
GLOBE TROTTING
DreamWorks gets own theme park
East Rutherford, N.Y. » Shrek might find a home in the swamps of northern New Jersey.
The Hollywood studio that created the green ogre and the wisecracking zoo animals of "Madagascar" announced Wednesday it had agreed to license its characters, storytelling and technology for a theme park at a long-stalled and vacant megamall in the Meadowlands.
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, in a joint statement with the mall developer, said that the indoor theme park 10 miles west of New York City would create "a unique and innovative family entertainment experience."
The American Dream mall in East Rutherford would be the first wholly themed DreamWorks park. Dreamworld, a theme park in Australia, features some DreamWorks characters but not exclusively.
Scopes Festival takes 1-year hiatus
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. » There won’t be a Scopes Festival in Dayton this year.
For more than 20 years, the town has held a festival in July marking the anniversary of the famous Scopes "monkey trial," which took place in Dayton in 1925. The festival was scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
But the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that organizers have canceled the 25th annual festival because of "unforeseen circumstances."
A new play about the trial was to debut at the festival, but organizers said they ran into problems with the production, such as scheduling conflicts among cast members.
The festival is scheduled to resume next year.
Google offers maps of museums
WASHINGTON » The world’s largest museum complex is being mapped room by room through a partnership with Google.
Beginning Tuesday, visitors at the Smithsonian Institution can use a smartphone to find their way through 17 museums, the National Zoo in Washington and locations in northern Virginia and New York City.
The interior maps totaling 2.7 million square feet can be accessed by visitors with Google Maps for Android. They include maps of the National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History, which draw millions of visitors.
Maps also have been completed for the National Portrait Gallery and a half-dozen other art museums.
