Updated at 5:04 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Bishop Museum to release book on Coconut Island
Advertiser Staff
In November Bishop Museum Press will release "Moku o Lo'e: A History of Coconut Island by P. Christiaan Klieger, with contributions from Philip Helfrich and Jo-Ann C. Leong.Available in softcover ($24.95) and hardcover ($39.95), the book will be available at Bishop Museum's Pacifica shop beginning Nov. 15 and is now taking orders. The book will also be available at bookstores throughout Hawai'i and on the Mainland. Mail orders are available online at www.bishopmuseum.org/press.
P. Christiaan Klieger weaves together the story of Moku o Lo'e, or Coconut Island as it is more commonly known, that secluded hillock of paradise in the middle of Kane'ohe Bay.
Its past includes Native Hawaiian fishermen who used Moku o Lo'e as a fishing station and Fleischmann Company heir Christian Holmes II, who turned in the 1930s the 12-acre rock into a 28-acre pleasure dome of seven main structures, which included a shooting gallery, bowling alley and lagoon swimming pool.
