Showing posts with label Hana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hana. Show all posts
Friday, March 6, 2015

Georgia O’Keeffe

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James Drummond Dole founded Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901. The ad agency for Dole was looking for something special for a national m...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

ʻOheʻo

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Although the canoe was a principal means of travel in ancient Hawaiʻi, extensive cross-country trail networks enabled gathering, harvesti...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Wetland Taro

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Wākea and Papa, sky-father and earth-mother, who by the ʻOpūkahonua lineage were half-brother and half-sister, were said to be the pare...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Battle of Kalaeokaʻīlio

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On April 19, 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.  The battl...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Nāhiku Rubber Company

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Nāhiku comes from "Na Ehiku" meaning "the Seven" and it relates to the seven stars of the constellation Pleiades, or...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Battle of Kalaeʻiliʻili

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In Europe, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763,) becoming the dominant power in Europe, North America an...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Road to Hāna

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The Maui News reported that this “fine piece of road” was of “practically no benefit”. They later changed their tune and called it a “g...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Keʻanae Prison Camp

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In June, 1925, Governor Wallace Farrington and the County Board of Supervisors Chairman Samuel Kalama led a grand procession of cars on t...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Kekūhaupiʻo

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By the time of Cook's arrival, Kamehameha had become a superb warrior who already carried the scars of a number of political and phys...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Kalaniʻōpuʻū

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At the time of Captain Cook’s arrival (1778-1779), the Hawaiian Islands were divided into four kingdoms: (1) the island of Hawaiʻi under ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Kīpahulu

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The south-eastern section of the island of Maui, comprising the districts of Hāna, Kīpahulu, Kaupo and Kahikinui, was at one time a Roya...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Nā Hono A Pi‘ilani

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In northwest Maui, the district the ancients called Kaʻānapali, there are six hono bays (uniting of the bays,) which are legendary:  fro...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Piʻilanihale Heiau

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This is Hawaiʻi’s (and maybe Polynesia’s) largest, heiau that is still intact (it is situated near Hāna, Maui.) Standing over 40-feet ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Wānanalua Church

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Wānanalua (“double prophecy”) is an ahupuaʻa in Hāna ("work" or "profession") and birthplace of Kaʻahumanu. (The bir...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Keʻanae, Maui

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“Wai o ke ola! Wai, waiwai nui! Wai, nā mea a pau, ka wai, waiwai no kēlā!”  (Water is life! Water is of great value! Water, the water i...