ISLAND HOPPING
Save by staying at remodeled hotel
The Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa is offering 25 percent savings on vacation stays to reintroduce the newly renovated hotel to visitors. The resort’s $16 million remake is expected to be finished in late summer.
A per night price of $129 for mountain-view rooms is available for bookings made Aug. 4 to Sept. 30 for stays from Aug. 4 to March 31.
For information, visit www.SheratonKona.com or call 866-716-8140.
Museum presents an evening of music
Slack-key master George Kahumoku Jr. and his students will play at a "Blue Hawaiian Moonlight" concert set for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Bailey House Museum in Wailuku.
Tickets are $35, $25 for Maui Historical Society members and $15 for students 12-18. Younger children are free. Proceeds go to the historical society.
For details, call the museum at 244-3326 or visit www.mauimuseum.org.
GLOBE TROTTING
Tweets tout best of Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vt. » Copying Sweden, Vermont’s tourism department has launched a new social media campaign that relies on its residents to tweet about why Vermont is a great place to live, work and visit.
Deputy Tourism and Marketing Commissioner Steve Cook says it’s a cool way to create a user-generated review of the state.
The first tweeter, Ken Millman, who lives in Alburgh and works in Burlington, has tweeted about fishing in Lake Champlain, his commute and visiting his mother in Quebec.
To keep the tweets positive and inoffensive, the Tourism Department says it’s requiring residents to explain why they want to participate and what they would talk about, and to provide the state with their Twitter handle.
War events involve Coast Guard
DETROIT » The U.S. Coast Guard says it will participate in a series of events in Detroit and at other Great Lakes ports commemorating the War of 1812.
The Coast Guard’s Cleveland office said the Detroit events are scheduled for Sept. 4-10. Elsewhere, programs are planned in Milwaukee, Aug. 8-13; Chicago, Aug. 14-20; Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 23-27; Cleveland, Aug. 27-Sept. 4; and Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 11-17.
The Coast Guard says events will vary at each port but will include concerts by the Coast Guard Dixieland Band, performances by the Coast Guard Color Guard and Silent Drill Team, and public tours of Coast Guard cutters.
The Great Lakes region was a key area of conflict in the war, with U.S. and British land and naval forces clashing over control of what is now Canada.
Exhibit showcases Islamic art
INDIANAPOLIS » The Indianapolis Museum of Art is preparing to host an exhibit of the arts in Islamic society.
"Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture" will open Nov. 2 and include calligraphy, ceramics, paintings, woodcarvings and textiles. The exhibit will run through Jan. 13.
The exhibition was built from collections around the world. It includes a 26-foot calligraphic scroll dating from the 14th or 15th century, a 13th-century bowl from Iran and a Syrian glass flask believed to date from as early as the seventh century.
