[gn_quote]Kalaupapa started to be like a playground for me. School only for three hours in the morning, seven-thirty to ten-thirty. All I cared was I didn’t have to work taro patch anymore. On Oahu every weekend my parents made us work in the taro patch out in Laie. The whole family pitched in because this […]
[gn_quote] Decades after the August AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and its sister cities, Pliny the Younger chronicled how his beloved neighborhood had disappeared into the earth. Frances Kakugawa is Pliny the Younger to a modern Pompeii called Kapoho. [/gn_quote] Whenever I hear the name Frances H. Kakugawa, I tend to think of three […]
Being retired from politics for some time now, Fred Rohlfing isn’t afraid to say “I told you so” on a number of political matters—in fact, he literally does so when it comes to the topic of mass transit. Early in the book he mentions how he lobbied for surveys into mass transit and rail as […]
Press Release via Watermark Publishing Fred Rohlfing’s Island Son Presents an Alternative View of Hawai‘i Politics A fresh look at Hawai’i politics, past and present, is the theme of Fred Rohlfing‘s autobiography—Island Son: The Life and Times of Hawai‘i’s Republican Reformer, newly released by Legacy Isle Publishing. In his 280-page memoir, the former state senator […]
Due to the unique character of Kapa’a, a landless Hawaiian had become an established business man in the Kaua’i community. Hawaii is often seen as very different from other places in the world. In turn, each island has its own diverse practices, people and history, and going even further, each district or town often view themselves as unique from everyone […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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