Kaopakalua

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Oil on canvas 24x36

 

During World War II, thousands of U.S. Marines were stationed in Haiku. A military outpost known as Camp Maui was established at Kokomo and for several years it served as a training ground and recreational center for the Fourth Marine Division. Many veterans from that era have fond memories of the place and for the people who took them in and treated them with kindness and aloha. There is a Memorial Park dedicated to these Marines at Giggle Hill (so-called, it is said, because of all the giggling going on when young man meets pretty girl in secluded place).