Showing posts with label Kalakaua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kalakaua. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2015

‘Him of the Low, Sweet Voice’

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Failing health for some months past made it seem advisable that King Kalākaua should seek to regain it by a voyage to the more bracing cl...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Keliʻiponi

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Although Kalākaua had been elected and serving as King since 1874, upon returning from a trip around the world, in 1883, it was determine...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Puʻu ʻOhau

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Fishers generally refer to it as ‘Red Hill;’ its volcanic cinder, partially collapsed and exposed on the seaward side, gives it an easy n...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Charles John Wall

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Charles John Wall was born in Dublin, Ireland, on December 23, 1827.  He married Elizabeth Evans (Miller) Wall; they had 10-children: Tho...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Kōnane

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Lawe ʻili keokeo, paʻani, ka ʻeleʻele Removing the whites is playing with the blacks It starts with a papamū, a generally rectangular...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Charles Lambert

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Kalākaua had a great interest in science and he saw it as a way to foster Hawai‘i’s prestige, internationally. The opportunity to demo...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The lighthouse is reached, no drop! the outer buoy, no stop!

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This is a story about Joseph Lawrence Van Tassell.  But before we get to Van Tassell, let’s look at a predecessor and his attempts at the...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Coaling Station

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Prior to the early-1900s, most vessels were powered by sail; the absence of a fuel to move was a major factor in the flexibility of fleet...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

“The Prophet”

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The headline in the October 24, 1868 Pacific Commercial Advertiser boldly stated “Insurrection on Hawaiʻi.” “For several years past, on...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Nā Lani ʻEhā

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Nā Lani ʻEhā (The Royal Four; the Heavenly Four) are four siblings who, among other accomplishments, demonstrated extraordinary talent ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Paul Neumann

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“Mrs. Dominis in a few words stated that she desired to surrender all her claims to the throne, and offered her formal abdication to Pres...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Polynesian Confederacy

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The last decades of the 19th-century were a period of imperial expansion, especially in the Pacific. European (primarily Britain, France ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Royal Residences and State Houses

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For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaiʻi might become part of a European nation’s empire. During the 1830...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Watertown

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As a means of solidifying a site in the central Pacific, the US negotiated an amendment to the Treaty of Reciprocity in 1887.  King Kalāk...