The Hawaiian Crown Fund is an amazing venture started during the Second Great Depression. Mounting losses in tourism alarmed the citizens, which gave Governor Mahana the freedom to nationalize the old Crown Lands and levy monthly rents on the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kingdom of Hawaii’s Crown Lands were confiscated during the overthrow of the last Queen, but the native Hawaiians never forgot. The various royal families and native rights groups fought in the courts and congress to return the lands, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The political campaign for the vacated governorship of Hawaii brought Hawaii into the Second Great Depression with destroyed political careers, jailed politicians, and gutted political parties. The last man standing on Election Day was actually a woman. Mahana La’anui had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The reduced tourism coming in from the mainland greatly affected the Hawaiian economy during the Second Great Depression, but it was not the locals’ primary concern. They had a local political crisis that was far more important to them. Having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up watching the Charlton Heston Midway, complete with the old shaky newfilm-like airplane action, and always loved it. So when the new Midway came out, I quickly bought the old one on DVD (or possibly Blu Ray, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression was not as great an issue in Hawaii as it was in other areas of America. Make no mistake that there were hardships, but the Hawaiians had a far more important issue to deal with while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Star Kingdom of Hawaii is a rare example of an actual, working monarchy in the modern day. The native population had never forgotten the overthrow of their historical monarchy in the later 1800s, but also never had the power[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
American Samoa is home to America’s primary military base in the South Pacific Ocean. It is actually a reserve, multi-service base manned almost entirely by local Samoans who maintain the historical naval base buildings for tourists to visit. The permanent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pago Pago is the one truly great big city of American Samoa. Pago Pago Harbor is one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, and is protected from storms by Mount Pioa in the east. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
American Samoa is much like the Midwestern States in many ways, if you replace the endless tracks of fields with endless tracks of ocean. Small towns or clan gathering areas of between a hundred and a thousand people dot the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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