Beginning circa 400 AD and continuing over a number of succeeding centuries, Polynesian sea voyagers from the Marquesas and Tahiti became the first people to…
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Born in Lihu‘e, the daughter of Filipino paniolo John Malina Sr. and Keokilele Halemanu Punana Ukeke, Nani Malina Alapa‘i (1874-1928) was for over 20 years…
Peter Malina (1877-1950), born in Lihu‘e, the son of John Malina and Keokilele Halemanu Ukeke Malina, was a jailor from 1909 until the mid-1920s at…
Born on O‘ahu, the son of Japanese immigrants who ran a general store, but raised in Kalaheo, Isami Doi (1903-1965) went on to become one…
The first crossing of the Pacific by air was accomplished in 1928 by Australian pilot Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, copilot Charles Ulm, navigator Harry Lyon…
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…
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…