Here’s another batch of my mother’s photos, this time from a trip to Lanai in October, 1964.
My mother, Helen Lind, accompanied then-retired UH Professor Carey D. Miller, and an old friend of Miller’s visiting from New Zealand, Eileen Fairbairn. Miller and Fairbairn were in their early 70s at the time, I believe. The three borrowed a jeep from Edean and Swede Desha, and made their way around the island, through the red dirt pineapple fields, to the deserted beach at Manele (now site of the Four Seasons Resort), and on to the island’s 3,370 foot summit.
If you’ve been on Lanai recently, please share your observations on how things have changed, or not changed, in the intervening 49 years.
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Wonderful photos! As it turns out, I was on Lanai at the same time. I sailed into deserted Manele Bay at sunrise after a night sail from Honolulu in a storm Never so happy to see land in my life!
I have a short write-up about the engineer who designed Lana`i city along progressive lines:
http://www.ascehawaii.org/heritage2009.htm#0904
Wow, these really sent me back to 1969 when I arrived on Lanai as a high school junior. The only change I see from 1964 to 1969 was Hawaiian Air had switched to DC-9 jets. The rural plantation lifestyle is now history, along with the wide-open beaches. Interestingly, the history of a paternalistic owner of 97% of the island continues now with Larry Ellison…. I feel blessed to have experienced it all, including the blistering heat in summer picking pine behind the boom….