ROAD N TES Editor’s Note: Beyond Pearl Harbor, most of us don’t know squat about Hawaiian history. GP contributor Will McGough visited the island of Molokai for an education in the “real” Hawaii.

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A visit to the island of Molokai offers a window on a unique and tragic chapter of Hawaiian history. For about a century, beginning in 1866, some 8,000 individuals afflicted with leprosy were ...

After hiking downhill 90 minutes on a three-mile trail with 26 switchbacks, we came to a clearing with a long, peaceful stretch of sandy white beach juxtaposed against the aqua ocean. Almost ...

The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s History Club members will return to Molokai on Friday to honor the patients of Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, by placing lei on their graves.

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her ...

Leprosy has a long history of being used to disenfranchise already socially marginalized populations. Between 1865 and 1969, more than 8,000 leprosy sufferers in Hawaii were forcibly relocated to ...

Father Damien of Molokai. Greatest among the lepers of history is possibly the only voluntary leper of them all, Father Damien of Molokai.

For over a hundred years, the isolated peninsula on Molokai’s north shore has been home to roughly 8,000 with Hansen’s disease, formerly known as leprosy.

Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii's leprosy patients.