Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 8, 1 August 2013 — Kalaupapa book lecture [ARTICLE]
Kalaupapa book lecture
Author Kerri Inglish will discuss her bookMfl 'i Lepem: Disease and Dispīacement in Nineleenlh Century Hawai 'i at Lyman Museum in Hilo
on Aug. 26 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The presentation highlights the Hansen's disease outbreak of 1865 to 1900, whieh saw thousands of people afflicted with what was then known as leprosy being sent to the remote Kalaupapa peninsula on Moloka'i. Inglis's book draws from published and previously unpublished sources and speaks almost exclusively in the voices of the patients, the vast majority of whom were Native Hawaiian, according to the Lyman Museum announcement. Inglis, who will also sign copies of her book, is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo. The presentation is free to Lyman Museum members, $3 for nonmembers. For information, visit www.lymanmuseum.org or eall (808) 935-5021.