On the front lawn of Hilo Public Library rests the Naha Stone, a wide, 7,000-pound chunk of volcanic rock. Legend says that whoever could overturn the stone would be granted the power to unify all of Hawaii. King Kamehameha the Great, who eventually conquered the Hawaiian Islands, was believed to have overturned it. Recently, I […]
At least once in your lifetime, take the Road to Hana. The waterfalls, those valleys, a stunning black-sand beach, a jaw-dropping red-sand beach, banana bread stands every other mile and the charming small town of Hana itself, are well worth the few minutes of wooziness you feel after a day’s worth of turns—620 of them,
The island of Kahoolawe is a culturally significant place. As a child, I remember learning this early on, in an abstract sense, mainly from my tireless civil rights protesting, social justice working grandmother who helped rear me. When recalling Kahoolawe’s contemporary history as a former bombing range, all her tirades about the island’s abuse by
