Word: kealakekua
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...timing was perfect. The uke, inexpensive and easy to learn, had become the prime accessory for jazz agers. Hits like Ukulele Lady, Hula Lou and My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua made the Hawaiian sound, in its perky pop mutation, the hottest "world music" of its time. Nawahi, a showman as much as an artist, aimed to please. He could run through Kitten on the Keys at warp speed, or play Turkey in the Straw on the steel guitar using his foot as the steel...
...grandson of Japanese immigrants, Onizuka grew up in the village of Kealakekua, on the Kona coast of Hawaii island. As a boy, he worked in the island's rich coffee fields, but his mind was on the stars, which he liked to examine through a telescope at Honolulu's Bishop Museum. The oldest of four children, Onizuka was a star athlete, an honor student and an Eagle Scout. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
...hundred and fifty years ago, Capt. James Cook, British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There was joy among the natives, for the Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down...
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