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 Fritters Day
Day 357 of 2009
8 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Makana: Gift
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
—K’Den: Agreed
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— E ho’a’o no i pau kuhihewa –
“Try to end the panic.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.” - Otto von Bismark
December 2, 1802: The first sugar mill, made of a stone mill and a boiler, is brought to Maui by John White, a man who had spent most of his life in China. White originally came to Maui to trade sandlewood, and built the mill as an after thought.In the 1700s, native Hawaiians planted sugar cane on the banks of taro patches as a part of their food supply.The Hawaiian, Historical Society reports that as an itinerant sugar maker, the sugar miller set up his works, ground cane, made sugar from the juice, and divided the products, sugar and molasses, equally with the suppliers of cane.The Hawaiian sugar industry expanded to become the dominant segment of the Hawaiian economy by the time of the Civil War in the United States, and was number one industry until supplanted by the tourist industry in the 1960s.Pictured: A sugar mill circa the Civil War times. EVEN
