Some local folks on Kauai believe Halfway Bridge is haunted at night, and they tell tales of ghosts, Goddess Pele and Hawaiian Night Marchers appearing…
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In February 1888, the inter-island schooner “Nettie Merrill” was shipwrecked in rough seas and strong winds off Waimea, Kauai. Its crew managed to escape the…
Born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, in 1906, Agapito Sadang was recruited by the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Association, and upon his arrival in 1926 at Honolulu…
After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery…
Kauai’s most noteworthy hermit, Dr. Bernard Wheatley, was born in the Virgin Islands in 1919 and earned a medical degree. When his wife and son…
My wife, Ginger Beralas Soboleski, was born on Kauai in 1949 and raised on Kauai. During the 1950s, she walked to Lihue Grammar School in…
During the 1870s, a man named Keoike, a resident of Nukolii, Kauai, acquired in some way a fortune of $10,000 worth of eight-sided golden slugs…
In early August 1962, gutsy Eugene Ressencourt (1911-74), Bill Joy and Henry Kam made a treacherous descent from Kokee into Kalalau Valley. Ressencourt said, “It…
Julius Scammon Rodman (1912-2001), of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whaling stock, arrived in Hawaii in 1930 following a year at sea, and from then until 1940,…
Johann Heinrich Zimmermann (1741-1805) was one of three German sailors aboard Captain James Cook’s ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, when Cook made his discovery…