History — Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:27
Ewa Beach Elementary Celebrates 50 Years
Waipahu Sugar Mill
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:24
Share As the skies turn a reddish gray and black ash falls from the space above. The smell of burning sugarcane fills your car and you turn on your headlights to drive through the thick smoke up ahead. As you pass through the smoke you turn to see the fields on fire and plantation workers [...]
Hawaii in the year 2000 and Beyond
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 16:21
Share History The events of September 11, 2001 overshadowed and indeed, defined the turning of a new millennium. The world would mourn again when an accident on the space shuttle Columbia killed all seven astronauts upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. However, tragedy would give way to overwhelming triumph when Barack Obama was elected President [...]
Hawaii in the 1990’s
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 16:10
Share Back in the day, many in Hawaii could tell you stories of what it was like to make a living as a plantation worker from dawn ‘til dusk. Or, they could tell you of picking pineapples in the fields, making sure not to miss the last truck out at sunset, or about working in [...]
Put A Little Aloha In Your Shirt
Thursday, August 13, 2009 0:05
Share I will never forget walking through Waikiki last summer. The day was pleasantly warm, not so much the weather as much as all the bodies floating in and out of the shops along Ala Moana Boulevard. Suddenly, a short but huskily built Hawaiian man came running down the street. My friends and I watched [...]
Hawaii in the 1980’s
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:44
Share RememberWhen… From the sugar plantations to popular culture, the 1980’s in Hawaii were seemingly a decade of good-byes and tumultuous times, not only for our islands but also for the world at large. Outside of Hawaii, people everywhere mourned the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the death of Hawaii’s own [...]
The Hawaiian People
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 17:21
Share I always find it amusing that historians credit discoveries to explorers who landed on already occupied lands or islands. Do you know who discovered the Hawaiian islands? It was a group of sophisticated voyagers who traveled from the Marquesas Islands arriving around 600 A.D., populating the land they called their new discovery — Hawaii. [...]
Oahu’s Past: What was here before?
Monday, August 10, 2009 0:22
Share What was here before? Development continues to change the landscape and architecture of Hawaii, and quite honestly the older I get the harder it is for me to recall — what was here before? And, so I thought I’d ask the Hawaii Traditions readers for their help. Below is a photo of what is [...]
Kokua Kalihi Valley
Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:00
Share The ancient Hawaiians, like most native peoples of the pacific islands, lived off of their land. They planted such foods as kalo (taro) and ulu (breadfuit) and raised livestock like the pua’a (pig). Yet, just as much as these ancestors took from the land, they also gave back to her. They nourished the ground [...]
Hawaii in the 1970’s
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 10:47
Share RememberWhen A rebirth and renewed interest in Hawaiian music, hula, language, traditional navigation and voyaging occurred in the 1970’s and is referred to as Hawaii’s “Cultural Renaissance”. Both the hula and voyaging—two significant foundations of the Hawaiian culture—experienced a special resurgence during the 70’s. Though begun in 1964, the Merrie Monarch (named after King [...]
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