March 5, 2026
Tag: Hawaiian postcards
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Scorching Post Cards
on Hawai’i1 Comment
If you were a tourist on the Island of Hawai’i in the first two decades of the 20th century and you were among those permitted a walk on Kilauea’s caldera, you could do what the tourists on the postcard above are doing. You could scorch the postcards you planned to send home in the molten lava…
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