The Discover Moiliili Festival

I feel as if I enjoyed festival every week. Is autumn the season of festival? I went to “ The Discover Moiliili Festival” held in Old Baseball Stadium Park, which is located close to my apartment.

Purposes of this festival seem to be to reconfirm the roots of this area, Moiliili, and communicate more. As I introduced before at this blog, this area was pioneered by immigrants from Japan 100 years ago. I’m not sure whey a lot of people moved to these small islands in the center of Pacific Ocean. Presumably, they might have suffered from huge taxes and pressures by the lord, tyrant. There were many booths serving food and handicraft. Most attractive booth was the one, where many photographs taken 80 or 100 years ago were presented. The view around University Ave. was just different from current one.

We could see how such immigrants spent hard time here, and have developed this area. Waikiki area is representative image of Hawaii for Japanese ordinary people. But I want them to know there are a lot of little-known histories and aspects in this island. In this area, there are many older Japanese-American. Their face looks like Japanese. But they wear colorful clothes and fluently speak English. They are just American.