Hula maidens, rolling surf and “the perfume of a million flowers”—it’s an image familiar to those for whom the Islands are a faraway dream, an image often based on the music known as hapa haole. Hapa haole (half foreign) music usually has English lyrics with a sprinkling of Hawaiian words. Born in the early 1900s,…
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Zoo history tells Honolulu stories
“The animals are coming!” proclaimed the headline in Honolulu’s Pacific Commercial Advertiser on August 16, 1916. It was the beginning of what would become the Honolulu Zoo, and included among the creatures on a steamship from Canada was Daisy the elephant. Readers of this blog might recall that, soon after her arrival, Daisy was a…
