All photos click to enlarge The Beginning Land.
Perhaps no more striking juncture of these two worlds exists than in Hawaii. It is also the story of that company's growth, in tandem with the communities it serves, and the benefits this brought both to the company and to the people of Hawaii. Together the two boys grew up under the warm, stimulating influence of the bustling whaling port of Lahaina. Alexander was the more outgoing and adventurous of the two. He would become the idea man - and the one who usually raised the necessary money.