In 1866, William Hyde Rice – who in 1891 would become the governor of Kaua‘i under Queen Liliuokalani – began leasing land at Kipu, Kaua‘i…
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Founded in 1899 and demolished in 1985, the McBryde Sugar Co. plantation village at Wahiawa, Kauai was comprised of Camp 2 and Camp 3, situated…
I was at Dong Ha, South Vietnam when it was rocketed one morning in July 1969 by the North Vietnamese Army. The attack occurred on…
In 1882, Roman Catholic Bishop Herman Koeckemann purchased land at Kapaia from sugar planter Paul Isenberg on which to build a church for Catholics living…
While vacationing on Kaua‘i with his wife, Kathryn, and children Harry, Mary and Nathaniel Crosby during July 1962, popular singer, actor and golf enthusiast Bing…
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…
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…