Douglas Neckers: Easter Island and Toledo Doug Neckers One of the valuable gifts older people contribute to society is a collective memory about personalities and events that occurred in a community in the past. My own collective memory about some fascinating Toledo-area people, who tangled in an epic lawsuit, surfaced a few weeks ago. That lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. My memory got an unexpected jog when I watched, as I usually do, Judy Woodruff's "PBS News Hour" program. A final story from her Arts Canvas featured the classical pianist Mahani Teave, 38, who grew up on Easter Island, part of Polynesia. About 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, it is one of the most remote places on Earth. Called "Rapa Nui" in the Polynesian language, the island has a population of barely 7,000 people. It's famous for those mysterious giant stone statues, the moai, created by the ancient Rapa Nui people.