HONOKAA (HawaiiNewsNow) - There was a time “when sugar was king” in Honoka’a on Hawaii Island, and all life centered around the Hamakua Sugar Company and plantation life. “Every Christmas, like now, ...

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For over 50 years, Wayne Subica has been collecting rare items from the 85 former sugar plantations on Hawaii Island. He never intended to open a museum, but as his collection grew and the last ...

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Take the La. 119 exit off U.S. 49, drive about a quarter of a mile and you'll see St. Augustine Catholic Church standing along the Cane River. And resting quietly in a mausoleum behind the church is ...

Local author, Keith Smith, who was born in Pepeekeo, Hawai‘i, and raised in the plantation town of Kilauea, Kaua‘i, during the 1950s and 1960s, where his father, Ernest Smith, was Kilauea Plantation ...

WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable ...