Rev. Ephraim Weston Clark (1799–1878)

Rev. E. W. Kalaka, translator of many books into Hawaiian including A Dictionary of Biblical Words, dies from what appears as heat stroke. It happened not here in Hawaiʻi—but far away in Illinois.

Hawaiian National Museum

Last week we featured articles dealing with the beginning of Aliʻiōlani Hale. This week we talk about an institution that was located inside of that building, the Hawaiian National Museum.

Aliʻiōlani Hale

The lei-draped Kamehameha statue standing before Aliʻiōlani Hale the other week was as usual, an awesome sight to see. But today, we step back over a decade before the dedication of the statue.

Corrections

It was much easier for a newspaper to correct errors published within its pages than for a book.

Richard Armstrong’s description of Waialua in 1841.

Descriptions of places at a specific time give us clues into changes of the area through time.

Kamehameha Day, 1875.

There were no parades, but a 21-gun salute and a baseball game were included in the commemoration, 150 years ago, of Kamehameha Day.

Photographer in the Kingdom: Henry Lyman Chase, “Keiki”

Newspapers are one source not to overlook when sleuthing after the footsteps of those who went before.

piki.mana. nvs. Bituminous; coal. Eng. Lānahu pikimana, bituminous coal.

Here is another example of a word with more definitions than what is found in the dictionaries.

ʻō.lelo ʻē. n. Foreign language, incomprehensible lingo; mention of a matter other than the subject under discussion.

When you hear or see “ʻōlelo ʻē,” chances are the meanings above from the Pukui and Elbert dictionary are what comes to mind. But could one of the meanings have been more specific?

Levi Lemuel Joseph

Levi Lemuela Joseph was born on this day 153 years ago in Kīpahulu on Maui.