Get Ready for Mochi Pounding!

Please join us! Over the past 21 years, mochi pounding has played an important part in welcoming the New Year and in sustaining and sharing cultural practices.

Why we created hakalauhome.com

Creating hakalauhome.com is our way of showing our respect for those who came before us, to build upon the history and share it broadly, and to showcase the collective effort of residents of Hakalau today.

​Former residents share a love of Hakalau and work diligently to share pictures, stories and maps to reinforce their memories. Ken and I learned a lot from these folks and, gladly, have maintained contact with many. The key lesson was that culture can be passed from one time to another and one group to another. The values from the plantation community that former residents shared are gifts to us:

• Engage in collective effort
• Look out for each other
• Honor hard work
• Show respect for those who came before us

Aloha,
​Ken and Susan Forbes

More

Updates as of December 10, 2018

Yesterday:

• Timeline: Expanded to include: descriptions of Hakalau Gulch in 1871 and Isabella Bird's harrowing experience crossing the gulch in 1873, building the new mill in 1895, and a 1940 newspaper article about fingerprinting aliens at the Hakalau Post Office.
• Expanded content of Hakalau Upper Camp Community Buildings to include newspaper articles, more pictures, and more!
• Expanded and reorganized the history of the Hakalau Jodo Mission, part of the effort towards having the Mission designated an historic site. New pictures added.
• Added new picture of the Hakalau mill devastation caused by the Tsunami of 1946.
• Added newspaper articles and new pictures related to building New Highway Bridges over Kolekole and Hakalau Gulches after the Tsunami of 1946.

Today: ​​

• Updated Calendar of Events​​.  It's time for Mochi Pounding! NOTE: Hakalau Farmers Market has returned home to Hakalau Veteran's Park.
• Updated Issues Today including Hakalau Bridge, Hakalau Beach Park, Kolekole Beach Park, and closure of Old Mamalahoa Highway starting at Highway 19 leading down to Kolekole, ending near the intersection of Kaiwiki Homestead Road.
• Updated Hakalau Reunion to include pictures from the 2018 gathering in Hakalau.

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Tomorrow:​​​

• Updated Hāmākua Community Development Plan. Are you interested in becoming a member of the Hamakua CDP Action Committee?
• Updated and reorganized Cliff Failures with expanded explanations, new pictures of recent failures and a slide show of changes over time in the cliffs of Hakalau Point.