Desoto Brown News Today

Every year at this time, I look back on the previous 12 months and review what I learned about Hawaii people, places and organizations in a two-part series.

A historian serves two masters: the past and the present. Thats what British historian Edward Carr astutely pointed out, and theres a well-known historian in Kalihi who balances that task

As we mark the one-month anniversary of the Lahaina fire, one of Hawaiis most prominent historians suggests we need to plan now for a memorial and museum about the tragedy.

Mau ka Leo is the most visible part of a major technology upgrade at the museum called the Digital ­Futures Initiative, which aims to eventually put the museum’s huge collection online in an easily accessible and informative way. I

Restoration professional says the first step is to rebuild clean, dry, safe, odor-free buildings so "people have a place to sleep and a place to return back to as they

It was once the capitol of the Kingdom, a popular whaling port, and most recently, an economically important tourist town.

After finding an old unopened liquor bottle during spring cleaning, I investigated its origins.

Where was the Waikiki Dairy? Not in Waikiki, or even Hawaii for that matter. It was in Spokane, Wash. Why is there a Manoa Shopping Center in Pennsylvania? Why is there a town in Oregon named Aloha? And why do they pronounce it “A-lo-ah”?

On the island of O’ahu, a short walk from the historic gay bar Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand and touristy gay Kuhio Beach Park, a locus of healing and pilgrimage has been re-remembered on Waikīkī Beach through a reclaimed legend of transgender healing spirits.

On the island of O’ahu, a short walk from the historic gay bar Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand and touristy gay Kuhio Beach Park, a locus of healing and pilgrimage has been re-remembered on Waikīkī Beach through a reclaimed legend of transgender healing spirits.