Showing posts with label Lanai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lanai. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2015

Concrete No. 5

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‘Ship traps’ describes a phenomenon where northern and southern swells, strong channel currents, strong consistent trade winds and fringi...
Friday, December 12, 2014

City of Joseph in the Valley of Ephraim

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“This is the place,” and joy seemed to fill all. Elder Johnson then suggested that it should be called the Valley of Ephraim (a name th...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Lānaʻi Airport

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Aviation history for Lānaʻi began with the creation of an emergency landing strip, there, in 1919.  Aviation use was on-again, off-again ...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Ka Lanakila O Ka Mālamalama Hoʻomana Naʻauao O Hawaiʻi Church

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In ancient times, the windward coast of the island of Lānaʻi was home to many native residents.  Maunalei Valley had the only perennial s...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Lānaʻi - Lāhainā Ferry

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In ancient times, the windward coast of the island of Lānaʻi was home to many native residents.  Maunalei Valley had the only perennial s...
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...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Kaumālapaʻu

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The total land area of Lānaʻi is 89,305 acres, divided into 13 ahupua‘a (traditional land divisions.)  In the traditional system, respect...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Penal Colonies

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Before 1778, crime and punishment were closely related to the social and political structure of society.  Crimes were judged by their rel...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Maunalei Sugar

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In ancient times, the windward coast of the island of Lānaʻi was home to many native residents. Maunalei Valley had the only perennial st...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Sorrow Without Hope

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Amongst the islands of the Hawaiian group is one named Lānaʻi. Beautiful, fertile and productive, its people are orderly and self-govern...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Lānaʻihale

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The island of Lānaʻi was made by a single shield volcano between 1- and 1.5-million years ago, forming a classic example of a Hawaiian s...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Moku

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Prior to European contact, each of the major islands or independent chiefdoms in the Hawaiian chain comprised a mokupuni (island.) Over t...
Friday, December 6, 2013

The Mormon Mission

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New England Congregationalists first brought Protestant Christianity to the Islands in 1820.  Roman Catholic missionaries came to Hawaiʻi...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Walter Murray Gibson

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Walter Murray Gibson was born at sea, the son of English emigrants, en route to the United States (March 6, 1822.)  His early years were ...