Honolulu Town (Images of America)
Laura Ruby is the editor of M?'ili'ili-The Life of a Community, the 2008 recipient of the Hawaii Individual Artist Fellowship (the highest honor in the visual arts), and the creator of Site of Passage-Chinatown, a large, commissioned, site-specific sculpture. She has taught art at the University of Hawaii since 1977. Ross W. Stephenson is the historian at the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and he is the keeper of the Hawaii Register of Historic Places. He holds both a doctorate and master's degree in urban planning, focusing on the developmental history of Honolulu.