Sandra Bonura

Lydia K. Aholo at nineteen. Detail from photo of first graduating class of Kamehameha School for Girls, 1897. (Courtesy Kamehameha Schools Archives.) What:   The Queen and Lydia K. Aholo - Her Story, an illustrated talk presented by Sandra Bonura When:   Thursday, February 13, 2014 Where:  Kana‘ina Building (Old Archives Building) - Free parking on the palace grounds. Time:   7:30 p.m. (refreshments served at 7:00 p.m. prior to the talk) Free & open to the public. The Hawaiian Historical Society invites its members and friends to hear the story of a remarkable woman who lived for more than a century and knew Queen Lili‘uokalani “as the only mother I had.” The woman—Lydia K. Aholo—will be the subject of an illustrated talk presented by Sandra Bonura at the Society’s membership meeting on Thursday, February 13, 2014. The program will take place in the Kana‘ina Building (Old Archives Building) beginning at 7:30 p.m. Lydia Aholo was born February 26, 1878, in Lahaina, Maui, to Luther Aholo, minister of interior during the reign of Kalākaua. He had earlier represented Lahaina in the legislature and served as postmaster general. Her mother, Keahi, died shortly after Lydia’s birth, and she became the hānai daughter of Queen Lili‘uokalani. She was reared in the royal household, attending Kawaiaha‘o Female Seminary, Kamehameha School for Girls, and Oberlin College, where she studied music. She discussed her life with the queen and at school in oral history interviews with Helena Allen in 1969. She died at the age of 101 on July 7, 1979. Sandra Bonura is the co-author of An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands: Letters of Carrie Prudence Winter 1890-1893. This book includes love letters by a Kawaiaha‘o Female Seminary teacher [...]