Kauai Pineapple Co., Hawaiian Canneries, and Hawaiian Fruit Packers were Kauai’s pineapple companies. Kauai Pineapple Co. of Lawai, known locally as Kauai Pine, was established…
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Born at Koloa, Kauai, Kapa Moke (1886-1965) was for many years a sugar train locomotive engineer, first for Koloa Sugar Co. and later for Grove…
Niihau-born Kaapu Kolo (1801-1920) witnessed wooden idols being burned and heiau being demolished on Kauai following the collapse of the ancient Hawaiian kapu system in…
In 1933, 11 sugar plantations operated on Kauai: Kilauea, Kipu, Koloa, Lihue, Grove Farm, Makee, McBryde, (Hawaiian Sugar Co. until 1941, then renamed Olokele), Gay…
Frank Kurihara (1916-2012), a Robinson Ranch paniolo, once recalled working alongside the Robinson brothers – Sinclair, Aylmer, Selwyn, and Lester Robinson. He remembered the day…
Innumerable people attributed cures to Margaret Hattie Kuapahi Kupihea (1903-73) of Kapaa, Kauai, who had no conventional medical training, but instead practiced the art of…
The 1953 film “Miss Sadie Thompson,” with its exterior scenes filmed on Kauai, was based on William Somerset Maugham’s short story masterpiece “Rain,” first published…
Hilo Hattie (1901-79), the Hawaiian school teacher who performed for nearly half a century as a comic hula dancer, singer and actress, appeared briefly in…
Songbirds colonized Kauai millions of years ago and flourished until the arrival of humans. Between the time of Polynesian settlement on Kauai as early as…
One night in 1930, Juliet Rice Wichman (1901-87) and her husband, Fred Wichman, were at home on their Wailua Ranch, located near today’s Hindu Monastery…