As regards Hawaii I take your views absolutely, as indeed I do on foreign policy generally. If I had my way we would annex those islands tomorrow.
–Theodore Roosevelt, 18971
Today is the observance of Statehood Day here in Hawai’i which means many things to many people. Last year Hawaii celebrated fifty years as the 50th state, [...]
March is ‘Women’s History Month’ and there’s a bunch of educational and entertaining material out there to explore.
The Hawaii State Library often puts together very useful reading lists and I stumbled upon this collection/ bibliography of books on the extraordinary women of Hawai’i. It’s basically a recommended list of materials by or about notable Hawai’i women in [...]
Tutu’s Da Kine Hawaii is a picture book written and drawn by Dr. Kurt Schulz, who dedicates it “to all Hawaiians who…have lost their freedom of self-determination against their will.” Schulz’s history is one in which he escaped the tragedies of a war torn WWII Europe to become a cartoonist for Disney and Warner Bros. and later an [...]
One of the books recommended to us by Manoa Library Branch Manager Christel Collins, as part of our Library Tour Challenge, is the latest historic composition of Gavan Daws. Wayfinding Through the Storm (Watermark, 2009) is one of the most unique books I’ve ever read. With the subtitle “Speaking Truth to Power at Kamehameha Schools [...]
There is a great sense of preservation at Kaneohe Library. When speaking with Thomas Churma, we felt that under his management the library had a strong sense of safeguarding its past by balancing it with technology of the present. There is no greater example of this focus than in Thomas Churma’s goal of digitizing the [...]
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I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Having imbibed on various treats and now sufficiently out of my food induced coma, I thought it might be nice to talk a little bit about makahiki the Native Hawaiian equivalent of a harvest celebration not unlike Thanksgiving, Octoberfest or solstice. However, unlike [...]
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Happy Veterans Day to all of the active and retired service members whose tremendous sacrifice has enabled us to enjoy so many liberties.
Alex and I are both local Army-brats and having grown up in military families we celebrate Veterans Day with devotion. We are both unabashed patriots (especially Alex) and I couldn’t [...]
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On November 11, 1929, Territorial Governor Lawrence M. Judd stood at the hangar at John Rodgers Airport for the inauguration of Inter-Island’s first scheduled flight between Honolulu and the other islands. Judd’s daughter, Betty, christened the two new Sikorsky S-38 amphibians, which were to operate the company’s schedule. Thousands attended the occasion, with [...]
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On Sunday, October 11th (or Saturday night Hawai’i Standard Time) the world was officially introduced to Hawai’i’s patron saint. It was nonstop news coverage all week as Hawai’i residents flocked to Rome for the canonization of Father Damien, the leper priest of Moloka’i. This was an event of great importance to the history of our islands, and [...]
Kalaupapa, Molokai, Father Damien, leper colony, Lisa Cindrich, Henry Kalalahilimoku Nalaielua, Hawaii books
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