Following his graduation from Kaua‘i High School, “Joe” Shiramizu was hired by Lihu‘e Plantation as a timekeeper in the fields. “My first job was, I…
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Photographer, filmmaker and author John Wehrheim (b. 1947) arrived on Kaua‘i in 1969 to write and photograph “Paradise Lost,” a three-part series for the Sierra…
Born in Honolulu, Albert W. Duvel (1903-1978) was a 200-pound center and utility lineman on the University of Hawai‘i football team and the chief forester…
“At Christmastime, the Hawaiians would come to serenade us, and Ma would serve sweet bread, pickle pork and wine. “On Christmas Eve, we would hang…
Theresa Gouveia Cabral (1908-2011) was 91 years old and a resident of Kaimuki, O‘ahu in 1999, when she wrote her reminiscences of Kaua‘i. She was…
Born in Colorado, Kaua‘i Harbormaster John “Captain Jack” Bertrand (1891-1971) ran away from home in Nova Scotia at the age of 12 or 14 to…
Born at Kilauea, Kaua‘i, Tetsuo Sato (1909-1979) was a cabinetmaker, finish carpenter and master Hawaiian koa canoe builder noted for the restoration of the prize…
The eighth of eight sons of American Protestant missionaries Abner and Lucy Wilcox of Waioli, Kaua‘i, Henry Harrison Wilcox was born in Hanalei in 1858,…
Aylmer Robinson (1888-1967) was born at Makaweli into a family that had owned the island of Ni‘ihau since 1864, when his great-grandmother, Scottish-born Eliza Sinclair,…
Edward Henry Walton Broadbent (1872-1947) was born in New Zealand and was trained there as a blacksmith prior to his moving to Hawaii in 1891…