Lahaina: Yesterday and today

>> WELL, CONCERNS MOUNT FOR THE SAFETY OF MAUI RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY. MANY LONGTIME RESIDENTS ARE DEVASTATED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF LA HINA LANDMARKS AND THE HISTORY BEHIND THEM. PAMELA YOUNG TAKES A LOOK AT THE PART LA HINA HAS PLAYED IN OUR PAST. >> IN HAWAIIAN LINE, DEMEANS THE CRUEL SON AND THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, ?RESIDENTS HAVE EMBRACED ITS TRADITIONAL SUNNY CLIMATE. BUT THE HEAT THAT ENCOMPASSES THE BALLY ISLAND RECENT DAYS HAS THREATENED TO DESTROY MAJOR LANDMARKS THAT CELEBRATE A RICH HISTORY FOR 20 GENERATIONS OF MAUI ROYALTY. THE ISLAND WAS ITS OWN SOVEREIGNTY AFTER UNIFICATION BY KAMEHAMEHA. THE GREAT BEHIND IT WAS NAMED THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII. IT'S SMALL BOAT HARBOR WAS ALREADY BUSTLING WITH WHALING SHIPS. MORE THAN 400 VESSELS A YEAR FRONT STREET BECAME THE BOOM TOWN GATHERING PLACE WITHOTELS, INNS AND SHOPS LINING THE WHARF. IN 18. 23 MISSIONARIES PROTESTED THE ROWDY BEHAVIOR OF VISITING SAILORS. THEY BUILT A 2 STORY A CHURCH AND CEMETERY WHERE MANY ALI E ARE INTERRED TO ENFORCE CURFEW AND LIQUOR LAWS. THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MAUI BUILT LINE A FORT ONE ACRE OF STONE NEAR BENNION COURT PARK SITE OF THE LARGEST BANYAN TREE IN THE WORLD. MAUI OFFICIALS SAY THE TREE IS CHARRED BUT MIGHT BE SALVAGEABLE. BOLDUAN HOUSE MUSEUM WAS FOR 129 YEARS. THE HOME OF MISSIONARY DWIGHT BALDWIN AND HIS DESCENDANTS. AUTHORITIES SAY TODAY IT HAS BEEN LOST TO FLAMES OVER THE NEXT CENTURY. THE RENOWNED OF LA HINA DREW ARTISTS, WRITERS AND VISIONARIES. THE PLAYER IN WAS VISITED BY SUN YAT SEN JACK LONDON AND HERMAN MELVILLE, WHO IS SAID TO HAVE WRITTEN THE CLASSIC THERE, THE IN LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC HOTELS IS NOW GONE. 61 YEARS AGO, THE FRONT STREET THE CITY WAS NAMED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK WITH MANY OF ITS HISTORIC PLACES STANDING AS PROOF THAT THE SPECIAL PLACE HAS EVOLVED MANY TIMES OVER CENTURIES AND PERHAPS IT IS A HOPEFUL REMINDER THAT THE HEINEKEN MOVE FORWARD AGAIN AS IT FACES ITS LATEST AND MOST DEVASTATING CHALLENGE.

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Length: 2min 22sec (142 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 10 2023