Gerald Hirata, historian, and caretaker of the Hanapepe Soto Zen Temple, has created, for the first time, a revised USGS topographical map on which the…
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During 1971, my wife, Ginger, and our two children lived at Kapa‘a Stable Camp, Makee Sugar Co., and later, a Lihu‘e Plantation employee housing camp…
Born in California, George R. Ewart Jr. (1875-1959) came to reside in Hawai‘i in 1877 with his parents, and was educated at Punahou and at…
Anthropologist Kenneth Emory (1897-1992) was born in Massachusetts. In 1900, he moved with his parents to Honolulu, where he attended Punahou and became fluent in…
A famous beauty of 19th century Hawai‘i, Eleanor Kaikilani Coney (1867-1943) was born at Nawiliwili, one of six children of High Chiefess Laura Amoy Kekuakapuokekuaokalani…
The movie “Paradise, Hawaiian Style,” starring Elvis Presley (1935-77), was filmed during 1965 in Los Angeles and in Hawai‘i, with several scenes shot on Kaua‘i…
From 1919, when Kaua‘i’s Hawaiian Sugar Co., aka Makaweli Plantation, first published the “Makaweli Plantation News,” Hawai‘i’s original sugar plantation newspaper until 1983, when the…
The granddaughter of American Protestant missionaries Abner and Lucy Wilcox, who settled on Kaua‘i, and the youngest of Samuel and Emma Wilcox’s six children, Mabel…
Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett (1861-1929) was born in Lihu‘e, Kaua‘i, to parents Hermann A. Widemann (1822-99) and Mary Kaumana Pilahiulani (1833-99). Her German-born…
Kaua‘i’s Hamura Saimin restaurant was opened for business by Mr. &Mrs. Charles Susumu Hamura (1906-80) and Aiko Hamura (1910-2002) in a converted Army barracks on…