Friday, November 28, 2025
Today's Paper
November 22, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
In 1860, Captain Sinclair of the American schooner “Wamp” recruited four Polynesian men and six Polynesian women at Manihiki Atoll, Cook Islands, and shipped them to Koloa Plantati...
November 15, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
According to Hawaiian legend, the first Japanese to set foot in Hawaii were crew members of a Japanese ship that had been blown off course by a typhoon, and made landfall at Maui during the 13...
November 8, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
What follows is a condensed version of a legend about a mermaid that appears in the book “The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua,” written by Herman A. “Moke” Wilson (b.1950),...
November 1, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
The Wailua Bell Stone — a fairly flat, oblong-shaped, roughly 12-foot-square hollow stone that produces a bell-like tone when struck with a hard object — is the best-known Kauai be...
October 25, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
Albert Kekua “Pepito” Makuaole (1925-2007), of Kauai, one of the greatest mountain men of his time, a man who knew every trail from Makaweli Valley to the top of Mt. Waialeale, was...
October 18, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
Spanish, Japanese and Dutch seafarers probably visited Hawaii between the time, many centuries ago, when Polynesians first settled Hawaii, and 1778, the year Captain James Cook made his discov...
October 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
This past December, I was saddened to learn that my friend, Stuart Hanchett, had been struck and killed by someone driving a motor vehicle while he was crossing Kuhio Highway on his ATV in Mol...
October 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
In the early 1980s, I was employed at McBryde Sugar Co., Kauai as a haul cane truck driver assigned to one of three sugarcane harvesting gangs.
September 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
Von Hamm-Young Co., once one of Hawaii’s largest corporations, was founded in 1899 in Honolulu by businessmen Alexander Young, Conrad von Hamm and Archibald Young.
September 20, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
The Wailua Falls railroad trestle bridge, which once spanned the Wailua River slightly upstream of Wailua Falls, was constructed, according to one source, by Lihue Plantation in either 1899 or...
September 13, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
Among its many building projects completed over the years, Shioi Construction Inc., founded in 1948 by Kenneth Shioi (1916-2011), with Conrad Murashige and Roy Shioi at its helm, are several h...
September 6, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
The Hale Pumehana Motel was in business on the corner of Akahi and Hardy streets in Lihue, Kauai, from 1959 until 1991.
August 30, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), acclaimed for his novels “Treasure Island,” “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” and “Kidnapped,” as...
August 23, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
The splendid Rodgers &Hammerstein musical “Flower Drum Song” was based on Chinese-American author Chin Yang Lee’s 1957 contemporary Asian-American novel “The Flower...
August 16, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), universally known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a celebrated American humorist and author of two masterpieces of 19th century American literature, the n...
August 9, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
On Friday, March 8, 1957, a tsunami that originated in the Aleutian Islands and generated 32 foot waves hit Kauai and destroyed or damaged 75 homes and left 250 people homeless, while washing...
August 2, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
At Kukuiolono Park there’s a collection of historic Hawaiian stone artifacts.
July 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
H.P., Lindsay, Alan and “Tony” Faye managed Kauai sugar plantations.
July 19, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
In 1843, Theophilus Metcalf, the first known photographer of Hawaii, took the earliest known photograph of Hawaiians.
July 12, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
Adolf Grandhomme (1876-1957) was a sugar boiler at the Lihue Plantation mill from 1919 until he retired in 1945.