Before there were Hawaiian language newspapers, there were over ten years of printing!

Tomorrow makes 200 years since the first printing took place in Hawaiʻi nei!

This commemorative plaque is in front of the Hale Paʻi at the Hawaiian Mission Houses in Honolulu. Tomorrow morning they are having a historic reenactment of the 1822 press pull in person and livestreamed as well!

For more information on this and other bicentennial commemorations they are holding this year, click on the images below.

New year paniolo entertainment up in Waimea, 1908.

In the contest of tie-down roping [? hookuku hoohei a kulai bipi] held by the boys of Waimea on this past Happy New Year Day at Samuel Parker Ranch [Samuela Paka Ranch], Charles Lindsay took the fastest time of 39 2/5 seconds. That was quick. But if it was a Honolulu cow, it would have taken 2 minutes.

(Na’i Aupuni, 1/2/1908, p. 2)

Ka Na’i Aupuni, Buke V, Helu 1, Aoao 2. Ianuari 2, 1908.