HONOLULU (AP) — The owners of Hawaii's last sugar plantation say they're getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing work to ...
The Maui News – Hawaii sugar cane and Maui’s plantation history will be the focus of two presentations this week as part of the Maui Historical Society’s new exhibit and lecture series, “Reflections ...
From 1919, when Kaua‘i’s Hawaiian Sugar Co., aka Makaweli Plantation, first published the “Makaweli Plantation News,” Hawai‘i’s original sugar plantation newspaper until 1983, when the Waialua Sugar ...
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Over the past week, Hawaii residents have been showing their support for Ukraine, with some folks having close ties to people in Ukraine. Hawaii's ties to Ukrainians actually date ...
HONOKAA (HawaiiNewsNow) - There was a time “when sugar was king” in Honoka’a on Hawaii Island, and all life centered around the Hamakua Sugar Company and plantation life. “Every Christmas, like now, ...
Kauai, Hawaii's oldest island, is a lush paradise blessed with some of the archipelago's most dramatically beautiful landscapes, such as the Na Pali Coast, which is so stunning it doesn't look real.
PUUNENE – Plantation workers said they knew the end of sugar operations was inevitable, but they didn’t expect it to be so soon and were caught off-guard by Alexander & Baldwin’s announcement ...
In May 1968, when my fiancee, Ginger Beralas of Lihu‘e, first took me to Kaua‘i, there were eight sugar plantations in operation on the island: Kilauea, Lihu‘e Plantation, Grove Farm, McBryde, Olokele ...
Best health record in the world is that of the 87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association. Their infant-mortality rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 ...