Serendipity. We left our dear friend’s gallery on Baldwin Avenue in Makawao with rain sprinkling from a deep overcast sky. We were heading to Mama’s Fish House just east of Paia Town. IYKYK. But instead of taking us down Baldwin on into and through Paia, Maps had us take a right turn onto Holomua Road that skips Paia. Perhaps there was traffic or an accident or whatever. Serendipity. We had never made this turn or taken this road before, and we have been all over Maui. It’s mostly a dirt and rock road between sugar fields, the canes too tall to see anything other than a strip of red through a sea of green. Shortly after the dirt gives way to pot-holed pavement, and eucalyptus trees appear, you spy something completely incongruous glowing through the trees in the warm, afternoon Maui sun. It looks like a set from an extravagant production of Julius Caesar, but it’s something far more interesting: the ruins of the Old Maui High School founded in 1913 in the sugar cane plantation town of Hamakuapoko and abandoned in 1972. There are now efforts underway to conserve and restore the huge structure. But for now, it sits quietly among the eucalyptus and sugar cane, beneath wind turbines, face to the west, warm in the sun, wet in the rain, a groundskeeper occasionally mowing the grass.