This is an excerpt from Sugarcane Days, due on the island any day now! Innovation was an everyday thing at midcentury HC&S. Safer, easier, cheaper—these were goals for everyone, from supervisors at “work simplification” conferences to the workers who informally fine-tuned the processes they performed. Isolated in the middle of the Pacific before the days…
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Royal Maui Line Produced a Sacred Queen
Keopuolani, the “sacred wife” of Kamehameha I, was considered sacred because of her high lineage. She was the product of generations of intermarriage between high-ranking ali‘i of the Pi‘ilani line. The marriage of close relatives—full-blood brothers and sisters, half siblings, first cousins—was believed to magnify the mana, or power, of the chiefly class, concentrating it…
