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Princess Ka'iulani Visits MIT again!

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on June 23, 2010 at 7:30am

Some historical facts:

Upon hearing of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Princess Ka’iulani left England for the United States. They landed at New York City. On March 4, 1893, the day before Grover Cleveland’s inauguration as President, the seventeen year old Princess Ka’iulani and her guardian Mr. Theo Davies headed to Boston to visit his son, Clive, a student at MIT. Clive met them at the train station in Boston, and they checked into the Hotel Brunswick. The Davies treated the Princess t

Princess Ka’iulani Movie Update 2

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 17, 2010 at 2:29pm

I sometimes post some of the stories from my blog on the website GenealogyWise.com. I had almost stopped doing this when I received a message through GenealogyWise.com about the Essie Mott memoirs. This resulted in a lot of fun blogging connections and many blog posts, so I continue to post a few stories on GenealogyWise, just to see what will happen next.

I noticed today that a story I had posted on GenealogyWise on 16 October 2009 was the most popular blog post. This was the post “Princess Ka’i

Annie Londonderry and her “Extraordinary Ride”

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on December 18, 2009 at 7:30am

Last year Peter Zheutlin, the author of the nonfiction book “Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride,” came to the Leach Library, here in Londonderry, New Hampshire,

to give an interesting lecture about his ancestor. Annie Kopchovsky, was “Annie Londonderry,” the first woman to go around the world on a bicycle. She was actually paid $100 by Londonderry Lithia Water, a very popular drink of the era, to carry their logo on her bicycle as she rode on her quest in the 1

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Princess Ka'iulani Visits MIT again!

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