RELATED PHOTO GALLERY KALAUPAPA, Molokai—There is a recent grave at Kalaupapa, and the few living patients on the state Department of Health’s Hansen’s disease registry range in age from 84 to 101.
HONOLULU (AP) — A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom ...
HONOLULU - Dozens of people gathered this weekend to honor the life of a major figure in Kalaupapa history. Bernard Punikaia would have been 95-years-old on August 29. This is an early birthday party ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - National Park Service rangers have been trained to be on the lookout for invasive pests that could threaten the landscape in the remote area of Kalaupapa. The coconut ...
Apr. 18—John Arruda was sent to the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula in 1945 following his Hansen's disease diagnosis and Friday celebrated his 100th birthday in the Kalaupapa Settlement, where only eight ...
“Despite the prevailing belief that Kalaupapa was a place to die, (John) Arruda maintained a resilient spirit,” Kalaupapa volunteers said in a statement. Arruda, who was sent to the peninsula in 1945, ...
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock ...
Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii's leprosy patients
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock ...
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