Quotes About Kalaupapa

It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying Tsunami! as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was, after all, April Fool's Day.

December 22, 1980, the Kalaupapa peninsula was designated a National Historical Park and its residents were, as per Public Law 96–565, "guaranteed that they may remain at Kalaupapa as long as they wish." As of this writing, there are approximately thirty-one individuals with Hansen's disease living there in quiet dignity.

The package contained a book Rachel had requested, The Sea Wolf. Its author, Jack London, had visited Kalaupapa a year and a half ago; Rachel had liked The Call of the Wild, and worked up the nerve to tell him so. He seemed surprised to find a fan here, but was very friendly and gracious. Shortly after, he published an even-handed, sympathetic account of his stay at Kalaupapa.