Kalaupapa National Historical Park celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over Hansen’s disease. Ambrose T. Hutchison discovered the “dying den˝ on his second day at Kalaupapa in 1879. As ...

HENRY G. LAW photo Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa, who had a “big warm smile” and evolved into a “real leader” for Hansen’s disease patients in Kalaupapa, has died. Kahilihiwa ...

Kalaupapa today is the world’s most famous colony for patients with Hansen’s disease, more commonly known as leprosy. As of April 2024, eight people were still on the patient register at ...

Unknown to Mama Eve, Kalaupapa was a symbolic stage for a comeback. In 1865, to contain the spread of leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, King Kamehameha V signed a law mandating the isolation of all those ...