The Kalaupapa Peninsula is located on the north shore of Molokai and is one of the most unique places in all the islands. In the mid-1800s, a leprosy epidemic broke out in Hawaii. Worried that it ...

More than 8,000 men and women lived and died at the colony until the state of Hawaii lifted ... s acceptance of the seals is connected to its history. Leprosy patients sent to Kalaupapa “were outcasts ...

Stephen Inglis is among the performers featured in a concert to raise funds for the Kalaupapa Memorial ... of government policies regarding leprosy, now called Hansen’s disease — around ...

Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa delivers an opening greeting at the 2018 annual meeting of Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa at Kalaupapa. Kahilihiwa died Friday at age 79. HENRY G. LAW photo Clarence ...

resulting in a tale of the widespread devotion to two Catholic saints who cared for patients banished to Hawaii’s leprosy colony. Persistence is the one-word theme of this stunning project by Hawaii’s ...