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| | The Queen Emma Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | A devout Christian who chose to be baptized in the Anglican church in adulthood, and a typically Victorian woman who wore widow’s weeds, gardened, drank tea, patronized charities and gave dinner parties, she yet remained quintessentially Hawaiian. |
 | | She wrote exquisite chants of lament in Hawaiian, craved Hawaiian food when she was away from it, loved to fish, hike, ride and camp out (activities she kept up to the end of her life) and, throughout her life, took very seriously her role as a protector of the people’s welfare. |
 | | Beyond the biography, there is much enjoyment in the tidbits about Hawaii that Kanahele has gleaned along the way: that Princeville was named for Emma’s young and ill-fated son, that there was a craze for rice-growing that almost killed the taro industry, that Emma was the first queen ever to visit the White House. |
| www.the-catbird-seat.net /QueenEmmaFoundation.htm (1984 words) |
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