Manoa, The Story of a Valley

Contributing Authors: Charles Bouslog, Klara Chun, Janet Gordon-Roach, Charlotta Hoskins, Beatrice Krauss, Norma Au Lum, Fay Wren Midkiff, Miriam Woolsey Reed, Peggy Poole Robb, Evelyn Trapido, Louise Vicars, Christie Wong and Margaret S. Young

Hardcover (9x12), Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, October 1994 FIRST PRINTING (STATED AND INDICATED IN NUMBER LINE). SCARCE VOLUME. 246 pages. B/W photos throughout.

"...For the Native Hawaiian of ancient days, Manoa Valley was the life-giving source of freshwater springs and rich taro lo'i, or terraces, which provided generations with abundant nourishment. The alii, chiefs made their homes on the cool western slopes of the valley, while the maka'ainana, the people, populated the eastern floor. The remains of this ancient civilization are still found in a few stone temple and lo'i sites, hidden burial caves, and the numerous Hawaiian place names that are still used in the valley. In the 19th century, Manoa Valley would become the summer home to powerful kings, queens, chiefs and chiefesses such as Kamehameha I, Ka'ahumanu, Boki, Liliha, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III), and Lili'uokalani. The valley would also be the setting for one of the Islands' oldest and most exclusive schools, Punahou, ass well as the Montano and Woodlawn Dairies and the Woolsey Poi Factory. Graceful homes would be built in Manoa as the Castle, Cooper, Cooke, Widemann, Dillingham, Dowsett, Judd, Atherton, Beckley and other kamaaina families established residences in the rural valley retreat. In upper Manoa, Chinese and Japanese farmers would cultivate their taro and truck farms, nurture their orchards, and tend to their piggeries while developing small ethnic enclaves of stores, language schools, churches and graveyards. The trolley came clanging into the valley by the turn of the century, a harbinger that the valley of rainbows was to become, several decades later, one of Honolulu's most favored suburbs....."

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