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We the Voyagers

On Wednesday, a sneak peek of the documentary We the Voyagers will be screened at the San Francisco Yacht Club. The film is part of the Vaka Taumako Project, a nonprofit centered on Taumako Island in the Duff Islands group, in the Solomons. The project "aims to perpetuate ancient Polynesian seafaring knowledge and practice by training a…

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Simple Pleasures

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