Famous Author Was Impressed By Fine-Tasting Kona Coffee

Mark Twain published a story in the Sacramento Daily Union on August 18, 1866 detailing his journey to the Big Island of Hawaii the previous year when he had penned some of his “Letters from Hawaii.”

Twain noted that he was, “Bound for Hawaii, to visit the great volcano and behold the other notable things which distinguish this island above the remainder of the group . . . we sailed from Honolulu on a certain Saturday afternoon, in the good schooner Boomerang.” [click to continue…]

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