Anne Martha Rapozo Caires (1918-1978), the daughter of Antone and Rosalia Rapozo of Kilauea, served in the Women’s Air Raid Defense (WARD) on Kaua‘i during…
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An alii, Kaikioewa was born in 1765 at Waimea, Kaua‘i, but he’d moved to Hilo by 1782, the year his cousin Kamehameha I had embarked…
Waita Reservoir, with an area of 425 acres located on a site overlooking Koloa and bound on three sides by hills and a 28-foot-high dam…
In March 1870, the Navy’s USS Saginaw arrived at Midway Atoll with a construction crew aboard assigned the mission of blasting, widening and deepening the…
Black Friday week starts Monday at Choi Village next to the Ross Dress for Less in Waipouli, said Meghan Matsuda-Blaylock (she was helping at the…
M. Tanaka Store, Inc. of Kalena Street, Lihu‘e, was established by Manzo Tanaka (1879-1936) (first generation) in 1915 at Nawiliwili, and has since been in…
The story of Ko‘olau (1862-1896), the Kekaha cowboy, who after being afflicted with Hansen’s Disease (known also as leprosy), fled to refuge in Kalalau Valley…
The big house set on a knoll beyond the hydroelectric powerhouse on Wainiha Powerhouse Road was built circa 1910 and was originally the home of…
In 1945, after years of experimentation on his Anahola, Kauai farm, Joseph Taketsugi Esaki (1919-2010) developed his own variety of watermelon — the Esaki. Basically,…
The first traffic light on Kaua‘i was installed by Kekaha Sugar Co. in the late 1950s to signal the right-of-way for the plantation’s big haul-cane…