My new mini-gig is taking me back not only to Maui’s past, but to a great time in my own life. I have begun writing the “Looking Back Through The Maui News” column that Gail Ainsworth originated and contributed for years to the Sunday paper. After Gail decided she was ready to stop doing the…
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Kihei History: A House Made of Koa
An almost-forgotten chapter of Maui history centers on Kalepolepo, site of the ancient fishpond Ko`ie`ie and the whale sanctuary headquarters on a dune above it. No one knows when the fishpond was built, but it was many centuries ago. According to a December 1921 article in Paradise of the Pacific by Charles Wilcox, “In building…
