Captain Cook News

"I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair." Mark Twain's graphic description of life aboard a schooner off the Kona coast in 1866 did nothing to raise my expectations for an early morning cruise along the same coastline.

The rains came last night, but luckily the showers moved quickly and there were no reports of major flooding in the state.

The brooding ruins of Whitby Abbey, with its spectacularly spooky graveyard located on the cliffs above the town, inspired author Bram Stoker to make this the spot where his creation, Dracula, landed in England.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for Oahu until 10:45 pm.

On the hunt for Hawaia ia s rarest books. Adrienne LaFrance Locked in too-cold rooms, often water-stained, moldy and otherwise cloaked in homeliness, hide some of the most unusual specimens of literary beauty in the world.

Ask Chris Faye, collections curator for the Kauai Museum, about what visitors say after strolling through her institution's exhibits, and she'll tell you many of them leave with a common reaction.

HILO - Randal K. "Randy" Randrup was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison and 10 years probation for shooting his son eight times and throwing the body off a sea cliff.

John Derbyshire recently visited the "pleasantly inaccessible" monument to Captain Cook on the western side of Kealakekua Bay, on the big island of Hawaii: I can't claim any real familiarity with Cook, never having even read a full biography, but I long ago absorbed the sentiment, universal among his countrymen, that he was what Bertie Wooster ...

Robert Gowan's father was a ground maintenance chief who also flew combat missions with the 9th Air Force out of Belgium in World War II.

When Dwight Manago returned home to take over the family business 26 years ago, he had big plans for changes to the Manago Hotel.

Kona coffee belongs to a special breed of agricultural product. Hawai'i is the only coffee-growing region in the United States, and with its storied past Kona coffee has spawned an impressive number of estate farms of exceptional quality and global stature.

When Captain Cook became the first non-Polynesian to arrive in Hawaii in the late 1770s, he discovered a tropical paradise with a surprising queer twist.

Hawai'i Police Department Criminal Investigations Section, Area II Detective Walter Ah Mow Phone: 326-4646, Ext.

Big Island police have charged a man with attempted murder and other offenses in connection with a double stabbing Saturday in Kona.

HILO - A 61-year-old Leilani Estates man admitted Monday to shooting his 27-year-old son to death.

This feature aims to explain the fundamental effects of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act-the Akaka bill-currently before the United States Senate.

UTUROA, Raiatea: Captain James Cook, the great explorer of the Pacific, was the first European to "discover" Raiatea, when he anchored the Endeavour in the lagoon at Opoa, south of here, in July 1769.

With 50 small breweries in New Zealand there is a massive number of beers one must try to find the best the country makes.

I've used the Caretaker Gazette to live rent-free for the past three years. A friend told me about this publication, which has been around since 1983, and I've used it to find positions living as a caretaker in California and Idaho.

Martin & MacArthur is known for its locally made koa furniture. But the nearly 50-year-old company plans to showcase - and in some instances sell - items from a private collection of Hawai'i artifacts as it pushes to double the number of stores it operates.