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  • Home
    • Upcoming Events
    • About hakalauhome
    • Contact Us!
  • Yesterday
    • Timeline
    • Camps
    • People >
      • The Ross Families of Hakalau
      • Satoru Kurisu
      • Toraichi Morikawa
      • Waichi Ouye
      • Aigoro Uyeno
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
      • Hakalau Japanese Language School
    • Churches & Cemeteries >
      • Churches >
        • Hakalau Jodo Mission
        • Honohina Hongwanji
      • Cemeteries >
        • Honohina Cemetery
    • The Voice of Hakalau
    • Sugar Production >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company
    • Transportation >
      • Ships
      • 19th Century Hamakua Roads
      • Bridges >
        • Highway Bridges, 1950-1953
      • The Railroad
  • Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today >
      • Community Commitments >
        • Obon Festival
        • Memorial Day
        • Presentations >
          • American Gatha
          • Building World Peace, Local Style
          • Stronger Than a Tsunami
          • The End of Sugar
          • Ready, Set, Obon!
        • Newsletters
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Wailea/Hakalau Kumiai
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
  • Then and Now
    • UP & DOWN CAMPS: THEN AND NOW
    • Memorial Day: Then and Now
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua CDP & the CDP Action Committee

Hakalau Our Home

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Photo courtesy of Hansen Tsang
Creating hakalauhome.com is our way of showing respect for those WHO came before us, building upon the their history and values and sharing them broadly, and showcasing the ​collective effort of residents of Hakalau today.

Memorial Day:
Then and Now

Memorial Day was first observed on the Big Island in 1897, during the period after the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and imprisonment of Queen Liliuokalani and before the Hawaiian Islands became a territory of the United States in 1900. Services and pageantry took place only in Hilo.
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World War II Changed Everything
Based on newspaper research to date, it doesn't appear that Memorial Day was important within the Hakalau Kuleana (i.e., Kolekole to Poupou Stream in Ninole) until World War II when the area lost 12 boys and men during this war. 
The memorial becomes a reality in 1965
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Hawaii Tribune Herald, May 19, 1965, accessed via Newspapers.com
The restored monument in 2025
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MORE ON MEMORIAL DAY THEN AND NOW

Updates: June 8, 2025

Upcoming Events:
  • 6/6/25 - Updated schedules: Classes, Presentations, Workshops, Community Service, and the  Hakalau  Farmers Market.​​.
Yesterday:
  • 3/1/25 - Added photo of the last teacher at Hakalau School when it was located in Hakalau Gulch, Mrs. Benjamin P. Macy. ​
Hakalau Then and Now:
  • 6/8/25 - Expanded Up and Down Camps: Then and Now with an aerial photo from 1925 and supporting information from 1914 Japanese maps and name lists.
  • 6/6/25 - Added Memorial Day: Then and Now​
  • 3/1/25 - Added new section, Then and Now to explore changes over time,
Today: ​​
  • 6/6/25 - Added photos of the 2025 Memorial Day to the Hakalau Jodo Mission today.
  • 6/2/25 - The history of the American Gatha presented by musicologist Cynthia Morris at the Hakalau Jodo Mission is included with narrated slides.
  • 6/2/25 -Information on previous presentations at the Hakalau Jodo Mission since 2019 is available, including: ​Building World Peace, Local Style; Stronger than a Tsunami; The End of Sugar: Land and Water Use; Ready, Set, Obon! 
  • 4/29/25 - Added May-June 2025 Newsletter to the Hakalau Jodo Mission Today
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Up Camp Morning, April 4, 2025

For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by cultural values of YESTERDAY: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina. In 2021, Akiko Masuda added two more values to the list: Consistently show up. Whatever has to be done, jump in and do it!