Keala Lovell of the Hawaii Visitors’ Bureau is shown displaying the proclamation for the first “Merry Monarch Festival,” which opens in Hilo, Hawaii, today. The program continues until Saturday. Continue reading
By WALT SOUTHWARD
Advertiser Staff Writer
HILO — A parade, with Duke Kahanamoku as grand marshal.
A relay race, with boys using fresh mullet as batons.
A beard contest, with some 50 entrants expected.
A bicycle race, from Kohala to Hilo.
A town, done over in the era of Hawaii’s “Merry Monarch,” King Kalakaua.
These are just a few of the things being set up as Hilo goes into the final weeks of preparation for its “Merry Monarch Festival,” scheduled to take place here from April 1 to 4. Continue reading
Last week, a youth from the Kanilehua rains arrived, that being George Kainapau to Hilo nei, to spend some days here in the land of his birth, and in the afternoon of the following Monday he left for Honolulu.
This was not a child coming home to visit his parents living there, for they passed away many years ago, and their children are who remain.
When we saw that youth, we recalled our first choir leader, Harry Naope, because this youth, George Kainapau was one of the members of the Haili choir in 1927.
He is a youngster with a very good voice for singing. His voice is like the voice of a woman singing. Continue reading
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