Kalaupapa, on the island of Molokai, is Hawaii’s leprosy colony, where 8,000 people were sent into exile over the course of a century. Six of these patients still live sequestered, out of the 16 ...

A leper colony has occupied the remote Kalaupapa Peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i since the 1800s. Creative Commons A dark chapter in Hawaii’s history is coming to a close as the ...

The coronavirus has now infiltrated every county in the US, including the smallest one — a remote Hawaiian island with fewer than 100 residents that was home to a leper colony. Kalawao County ...

Kalaupapa today is the world’s most famous colony for patients with ... In the 1800s, an epidemic broke out when leprosy arrived in the Hawaiian Islands for the first time.

Hawaii’s “Valley Island”, Maui is aptly named for its ... the isolated former leper colony on Molokai’s northern cliffside. To escape to serenity, Hotel Moloka’i on Kamiloloa Beach ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...

Today's StoryCorps comes from the Hawaiian island of Molokai. It was once the site of America's largest leprosy colony, known as Kalaupapa. About 8,000 people from across the U.S. were quarantined ...

For more than 150 years people living with leprosy — otherwise ... from Belgium to the island as a young man to provide physical, spiritual and emotional support to the colony.