ISLAND HISTORY: 'Big John' Kauo and the Coco Palms Torch-Lighting Ceremony
In 1954, John Pakahea "Big John" Kauo (1933-2013) was hired as a waiter at Kaua'i's Coco Palms Hotel by his Aunty Moki Hanohano, the night dining room manager at Coco Palms, to beg…
