Sam had added multiple ice ponds, a cleverly disguised Hamm s Beer sign featuring a waterfall, tree nursery, farms, village scenes, ski slopes, a north pole village, “Plasticville” houses from the 1950s and 1960s, Department 56 collections

Truffles are among the rarest and most expensive foods in the world. The slow, labor-intensive harvesting of the plant that grows near the roots of trees is what makes them so expensive. (This year, one estimate was $2,100 per pound for white
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STOMP,” international percussion show; 3 and 7 p.m.; Hawai’i Theatre; repeats 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays LEDWARD KA’APANA, Hawaiian slack-key guitar; 6-8 p.m.; Kona Brewing Co., Koko Marina; 394-5662. ACOUSTIK PLAYGROUND; 6-9 p.m.; Hyatt Regency
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