Hawaii's Journey to Statehood: The Pineapple King
- Podcast Episode
- 2023
- 38m
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In the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy plateau in Central Oahu. He'd been warned that the crop was perishable and unprofitable a... Read allIn the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy plateau in Central Oahu. He'd been warned that the crop was perishable and unprofitable and that his venture was sure to fail. But within a decade, his plantation - and the immigr... Read allIn the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy plateau in Central Oahu. He'd been warned that the crop was perishable and unprofitable and that his venture was sure to fail. But within a decade, his plantation - and the immigrant workers brought in to farm it - reshaped the landscape and economy of the Hawaiian Isl... Read all