Hawaii: Scenes and Impressions

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Jan 1916 · C. Scribner's sons

Ratings and reviews

So much has changed, has been lost, in my slim 25 years in Hawaii. Inevitably, I am hungry to push back the curtain further and glimpse what PRE-ceded my experience here in these islands, to see what has been lost. This 1916 travelogue shows the great grandparents of the people and places I know and love. Racism of the day, "Japs" and "Yellow Peril" and matter-of-fact racial stereotyping. This is a document of it's day that strangely cheers one about how far society has evolved. Mother Marianne Cope, recently canonized by the Catholic Church is in these pages as a gracious, busy host to the author! St. Damien's successor sleeps in the saint's room. . . Places I know well on the Big Island are shown as they were long ago, the period between vast populations of Hawaiians, and the birth of my niece in Kalapana are filled out. Queen Liliuokalani has a year or two to live in what the author calls: the nicest home in Honolulu, Washington Place (Today's governors residence, right down the street, and in today's news. . . . . In my early days here in the 80's I met a man in his 90's who spoke of Queen Liliuokalani speaking to school children who walked past her garden. . . .