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William Herbert Shipman (1854–1943) was a businessman with an American background who was from Hawaii.He grew up and conducted his business on the island of Hawaii.One estate of his family was used to preserve the nēnē, an endangered species of Hawaiian goose.
The art curators on the island were skeptical at first that his themes would sell, so he was first relegated to the back of the shop. As the paintings proved the better sellers of the art in the gallery, they eventually took on a featured position, including replacing the previous styles of paintings in the gallery window.
Hata Sadanosuke was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1868 and immigrated to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1891. [2] In 1893, Mr. Hata worked as an agent for Odo Shoten in Honolulu ("shoten" means "store" in Japanese), responsible for taking orders from large sugarcane plantations on the Hāmākua Coast which employed many Japanese immigrant workers. [3]
By MORGAN WHITAKER Hurricane Iselle was downgraded to a tropical storm before it slammed into Hawaii's Big Island Friday, and so far reports of damage have been relatively few, but new video shows ...
The island is home to one of the United States' largest cattle ranches: Parker Ranch, on 175,000 acres (708 km 2) in Waimea. The island is known for astronomy, with numerous telescopes positioned on the summit of Mauna Kea at the Mauna Kea Observatories, where atmospheric clarity is excellent and little light pollution intrudes. [52]
Optimal training conditions Thursday afternoon led youth paddling coach Nathan Grocholski Lopez and four of his Big Island Jr. Va'a students, including his son, to head out on a downwind paddle ...
Keaʻau is on the east side of the island of Hawaiʻi at (19.621072, -155.041706 It is bordered to the southwest by Kurtistown. Hilo is 8 miles (13 km) to the north. The junction of Hawaii Route 11 (the Hawaii Belt Road) and Hawaii Route 130 (Keaau-Pahoa Road) is in the northern part of the community.
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States.Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more.