Radar love: Strange sight near Kalalau Lookout
Kaua’i may be famed for its eye-catching golf courses, but that’s not a monument to its alluring links that you see on the scenic drive to the Kalalau Lookout. Mat Munstermann / Special to SFGate It...
View ArticleMuseum Day participants worth seeing even when admission isn’t free
Some of the least-heeded advice I’ve given friends and other fellow travelers to Hawai’i is to check out one or more of its many museums — the beauty of the outdoors is usually too dazzling to draw...
View ArticlePearl Harbor’s new visitor center informs, inspires
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which will be solemnly commemorated at the USS Arizona Memorial and the other key components of what is now called the World War...
View ArticleWaikiki Natatorium’s memorable day-ahead Memorial Day observance
Although some 40,000 are expected to gather later today for the Lantern Floating Hawai’i ceremony (featured in my last Aloha Friday column and shown live online starting at 9:30 p.m. Pacific), the much...
View ArticlePictures from a date that still lives in infamy: Dec. 7, 1941
In just a few weeks — 70 years and change after the surprise attack by Japanese forces that killed some 2,400 people — the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will disband, according to today’s CNN...
View ArticlePearl Harbor’s submarine “Avenger” at 70: USS Bowfin photo gallery
It’s fitting that the USS Bowfin’s perch in Pearl Harbor offers views of both the USS Arizona and the USS Missouri memorials. Between the calamity of the surprise attack on the Navy fleet and nearby...
View ArticleHow Sen. Daniel Inouye “went for broke”
Would you give your right arm for the country that considered you to be an “enemy alien”? Hawai‘i Sen. Daniel Inouye, who died today at age 88, literally did so, after enlisting at age 18 in the heroic...
View Article‘Mighty Mo’ marks 15th anniversary in Pearl Harbor
She’s starred in two Hollywood movies and had more than 5 million visitors since she moved to Hawaiʻi 15 years ago. Oh, and she also fought in a little thing called World War II and hosted the signing...
View Article‘Mighty Mo’ recalls World War II’s end, adds Nimitz statue
It’s been 68 years since Japan formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, a date not easily forgotten at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Following...
View ArticleBattleship’s unique strategy to combat shutdown’s effects on visitors
The Battleship Missouri Memorial is using strategy, not firepower, to combat the effects of the federal shutdown. While “Mighty Mo” is privately managed by a nonprofit group and so has remained open...
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