Expanded Kilohana Plantation enjoys a local following Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Janis L. Magin Pacific Business News Kilohana Plantation A mansion built by sugar baron Gaylord Wilcox in 1936 remains the centerpiece of Kilohana Plantation and is home to Gaylord’s restaurant. Kilohana Plantation, with its lovely old mansion built by sugar baron Gaylord [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Fur Exchange – for Rum
Fur brigade arrival revisited Chanting for rum, modern-day voyageurs arrived at Fort Langley with furs for the Brigade Days celebration. Matthew Claxton, Langley Advance Published: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 Brigade Days at Fort Langley celebrates the reason the community was founded, more than 170 years ago. The fur trade drove hundreds of traders and First [...]
Down Under Rum on Top
HOLEY DOLLAR RUM TAKES A “HAT-TRICK” OF GOLD MEDALS IN LONDON Australia’s own Holey Dollar Rum has upstaged many better known brands in the just announced 2009 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) with the prized TROPHY for ‘BEST RUM” of the competition being awarded to the over-proof ‘Gold Coin’. In addition Holey Dollar Silver [...]