Hawaii’s 1st Library
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Peanut Butter Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pipi Kane: Bull PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Kau: Cattle HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “My heart sees what the eye cannot..” HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY — “I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
March 1, 1917: H.A.Baldwin and “F.F.” (nope we don’t know who the heck this could be. If you do, let us know) buy the island of Lanai for $588,000, or using the CPI to calculate, $9.2 million in 2008 dollars. We think they got a deal.They wanted Lanai to grow cattle. It didn’t really work out, and by 1920 they began to grow pineapple. That didn’t work out either, as pineapple isn’t grown there today. Now they want to grow resorts. Let’s hope it’s a trifecta.
March 1, 1879: The Library of Hawaii is founded. The Friends of the Library of Hawaii was founded in a building on Fort Street by Honolulu’s business leaders, merchants,and Hawaiian royalty as the Honolulu Library and Reading Room. Members of the original organization included King Kalakaua, Queen Kapiolani, Queen Emma, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Sanford B. Dole and James Campbell.
