Showing posts with label Kauai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kauai. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Benjamin Douglas Baldwin

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Benjamin Douglas Baldwin (grandson of the Rev Dwight Baldwin) was born at Kohala, Hawaii, April 12, 1868, son of David D and Lois M Baldw...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Atooi

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How do you pronounce Atooi … and Kauai? Cook’s Journal, the first writing of the Hawaiian words, generally notes the Island of Kauai as...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Colonel Zephaniah Swift Spalding

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“(He) was most emphatic in his conviction – the conviction of personal experience, that Sherman’s verdict, ‘War is Hell’ is the nearest t...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Manaiakalani

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A messenger sent by Maui, Sent to bring Kane and his set, Kane and Kanaloa, Kauokahi, And Maliu. Throwing out sacred influences, utt...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Haraguchi Rice Mill

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The Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society was formed in 1850 to develop Hawaiʻi’s agricultural resources.  It was then that rice made its m...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Nāpali

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Kaua‘i nui moku lehua pane‘e lua i ke kai Great Kaua‘i of the lehua groves which seem to move two-by-two to the shore (Maly) Kauaʻi is...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Nāwiliwili

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A pua ka wiliwili, A nanahu ka mano; A pua ka wahine uʻi, A nanahu ke kanawai. When flowers the wiliwili, Then bites the shark; Wh...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Hanapēpē Massacre

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In Hawaiʻi, shortage of laborers to work in the growing (in size and number) sugar plantations became a challenge.  Starting in the 1850s...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The Stitching

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Since I started these summary posts, I have received a variety of questions and comments (from many) asking about this or that. One suc...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Kīlauea

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 “A little farther on we entered groves of hala, through which we continued to ride for the rest of our journey. We turned from the road ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Līhuʻe

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Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi (literally translated as ‘cold chill’) dates from the late-1830s when Kaikioʻewa, governor of Kauaʻi, moved his home from...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

“Not A Planned Community”

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At the time of Captain Cook’s contact with the Hawaiian Islands the land was divided into several independent Chiefdoms.  By succession a...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Island Summits

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He ‘Ohu Ke Aloha; ‘A‘ohe Kuahiwi Kau ‘Ole Love is like mist; there is no mountaintop that it does not settle upon “… as the sun shinin...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Waiʻaleʻale

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“Aloha Waiʻaleʻale Ka Kuahiwi o Kauaʻi” “Such is the beginning of the ancient mele which pilgrims were formerly accustomed to sing on ...