Take a journey through old Hilo town. Revisit the golden era when cane was king, and Hilo was a bustling center of activity for the surrounding plantation villages. Rich anecdotes and rare photographs are included this handy, site-by-site guide, the second Big Island volume in Watermark's Small Town Series. Here are 100 photos — historic churches, mom-and-pop stores, field workers, tsunami damage — many of them from private collections and each one keyed to a location on a foldout walking map.
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A Hilo history: New book shows bay town in photos
Historic Hilo's storied past is told in photos and anecdotes in the new book Exploring Historic Hilo by Leslie Lang. The volume is part of Watermark Publishing's "Small Town Series."
Lang, a freelance writer from Pepeekeo who was once a frequent contributor to the Tribune-Herald, sought out photographs from sources such as the Hawaii State Archives, museums and private collections. She also interviewed several Hilo historians for the small coffee-table tome, which is reader-friendly, chock full of rarely-seen black-and-white photographs and easily-digestible nuggets of complementary information.
"It was a really fun project because I got to learn about the place that I live, and I thought it would be so interesting to just go back in time a little bit — and it really was." Lang said. "I see Hilo differently now when I drive through it. I come from the Hamakua Coast and I go over the 'Singing Bridge' and I look and I notice where the old railroad station used to be. I kind of have a picture of that now. I really do see the town differently and it is as fascinating as I thought it would be when I took on the project."
"I vaguely knew before about how there had been shops and stores and buildings all along the makai side of Kamehameha Avenue, where we have Mooheau Park now. That had all been destroyed by tsunami and not rebuilt, which is why it looks so pretty in the way it is now. But I really didn't get it until I started seeing these pictures when I was gathering information and photos for the book." --John Burnett, "Hawaii Tribune-Herald" (copyright)
Historic Hilo's storied past is told in photos and anecdotes in the new book Exploring Historic Hilo by Leslie Lang. The volume is part of Watermark Publishing's "Small Town Series."
Lang, a freelance writer from Pepeekeo who was once a frequent contributor to the Tribune-Herald, sought out photographs from sources such as the Hawaii State Archives, museums and private collections. She also interviewed several Hilo historians for the small coffee-table tome, which is reader-friendly, chock full of rarely-seen black-and-white photographs and easily-digestible nuggets of complementary information.
"It was a really fun project because I got to learn about the place that I live, and I thought it would be so interesting to just go back in time a little bit — and it really was." Lang said. "I see Hilo differently now when I drive through it. I come from the Hamakua Coast and I go over the 'Singing Bridge' and I look and I notice where the old railroad station used to be. I kind of have a picture of that now. I really do see the town differently and it is as fascinating as I thought it would be when I took on the project."
"I vaguely knew before about how there had been shops and stores and buildings all along the makai side of Kamehameha Avenue, where we have Mooheau Park now. That had all been destroyed by tsunami and not rebuilt, which is why it looks so pretty in the way it is now. But I really didn't get it until I started seeing these pictures when I was gathering information and photos for the book." --John Burnett, "Hawaii Tribune-Herald" (copyright)
About the Author
Leslie Lang is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Pepeekeo on the Hilo Coast. She is the co-author of Mauna Kea: A Guide to Hawaii's Sacred Mountain, also a Watermark Publishing release.
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Hilo's downtown area is lovely and unique, situated as it is at the foot of the venerable volcano Mauna Kea and resting alongside the usually calm and always crescent-shaped Hilo Bay. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Hilo's downtown area is lovely and unique, situated as it is at the foot of the venerable volcano Mauna Kea and resting alongside the usually calm and always crescent-shaped Hilo Bay. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kamehameha Avenue New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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