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…
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Born in Kealia, Kauai, the son of Otomatsu and Tamano Yoshida, Yoshiichi “Big Mice” Yoshida (1904-2001) was educated at Kauai High School and was the…
Kenneth Shiro Shioi (1916-2011), the son of Japanese immigrant parents Taroku and Haruyo Shioi, was born at Makaweli, Kauai, and moved to Honolulu with his…
In 1971, two years after photographer, filmmaker and author John Wehrheim first came to Kauai, he moved into an A-frame shack behind Howard Taylor’s home…
In early 1939, Honolulu police officer Harry Shupak informed treasure hunter Julius Scammon Rodman (1912-2001) that in 1934, while pig hunting in Waimea Valley, Kauai,…
“Honolulu,” British author William Somerset Maugham’s (1874-1965) tale of sorcery, is written with such authenticity that one has the impression that Maugham based it on…
For the longest time, and well into the 20th century, there existed a steep, ancient Hawaiian trail that connected Wainiha Valley, at the base of…
In his book, “Kauai: As It Was in the 1940s and ’50s,” Mike Ashman (1921-2018) wrote nostalgically about prices on Kauai in 1940, the year…
The California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C &H) refinery, founded in 1906 at Crockett, California, refined Hawaii-grown sugar until 2017, the year it refined Maui’s…
Independent sugar growers in Hawaii worked their land as a joint effort with the sugar plantation in their vicinity. They had control over their own…