Travel Lecture: Hawaii
Predavanje
03.11.2017. | petak
American Corner Zagreb
Početak događanja: 18 sati
Knjižnica Augusta Cesarca, Šubićeva 40/2
Mikell Reed Carroll
Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America. Hawaii is the only state which is not part of the Continental United States (as they are islands in the Pacific Ocean and not part of North America).
''Hawaii's diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches, oceanic surroundings, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists. Because of its central location in the Pacific and 19th-century labor migration, Hawaii's culture is strongly influenced by North American and Asian cultures, in addition to its indigenous Hawaiian culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.''
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii)
Official Website:
https://portal.ehawaii.gov/
Biographical sketch
Mikell Reed Carroll is a native of Bath, Maine, USA. She is a wife, mother, volunteer and the current World's Mrs. Tourism 2018.
As World's Mrs. Tourism she promotes tourism worldwide and and works to promote her own personal community service platform of Preventing Heart Disease in Women. She is a volunteer and official Ambassador with the American Heart Association and recently received the President's Volunteer Service Medal for her work to prevent heart disease. In addition, she was featured in a heart health issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine and invited by the White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in Washington DC in 2016 for her work as an advocate for women's health.
Currently Mikell resides with her husband and son in Zagreb. Mikell has previously lived in Maine, Washington DC, Hawaii, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.
A series of monthly travel lectures on the geography, history and culture of the United States has been launched at the August Cesarec Library in collaboration with American Corner Zagreb to cover geographical, historical and cultural diversity of the fifty states of America.