Charles Lindbergh's Grave

Charles Lindbergh's Grave Site in Maui, Hawaii

A brief video sharing the church and grave site of Charles Lindbergh in Hana, Maui, Hawaii.

Charles Lindbergh grave site at Maui Part 1 of 2

Kipahulu - Southeast Maui

A small sampler of images and video captured during 2013 & 2014 day trips to the lush Kipahulu district of southeast Maui.
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The first written description of Kīpahulu was apparently by La Pérouse in 1786 while sailing along the southeast coast of Maui in search of a place to drop anchor:
I coasted along its shore at a distance of a league (three miles) …. We beheld water falling in cascades …. The inhabitants, which are so numerous that a space of 3–4 leagues may be taken for a single village. The huts are on the coast so that the habitable part of the island is less than one half of a league. After passing Kaupō no more waterfalls are seen, and villages are fewer.
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I was going to present more of the material we collected during the hours spent absorbing the beauty of the Charles Lindbergh grave site and gardens at Palapala Ho'omau Church. However, after reading the article by Beverly Creamer, staff writer at HonoluluAdvertiser.com, I realized what I really needed to do was let Lindbergh, the Pryors and their beloved gibbons, and the others rest in peace:

Lindberghs found peace and solitude in Hana

Huialoha church in Kaupo, Maui, Hawaii

Huialoha church in Kaupo, Maui, Hawaii.

Wedged between the looming, leeward shoulder of Haleakala volcano and the borderless blue ocean, the rural district of Kaupo is East Maui’s version of the Wild West.

Since 1859, Huialoha Congregational Church has stood sentry on this wind-whipped coastline, a reminder of humankind’s nobler qualities: self-sacrifice, hospitality,
and simple joy.

Battered by time and the elements, this little church on the edge of nowhere might have become a lost cause - had so many people not found themselves here.

Ekahi Tours, Hana Adventure - Tom Barefoot's Tours

Visit for more information. The Ekahi Tours Hana Adventure started out with a shuttle pickup, which for me was at Kmart because of the close proximity to my house in Haiku and the rest of the group was picked up at their hotels or condos. From here we stopped at the Maui seaside for breakfast and then continued east along the North Shore of Maui. We saw surfers at the famous Hookipa Beach Park and then we meandered our way through the jungle. We saw bamboo forests, rainbow eucalyptus, banyan, African tulip trees and more as we made our way towards lunch in Hana town. We stopped at many different lookouts to take pictures and our guide Leimoni shared stories and narrations in between. She told us how she was raised in Hana by her Grandmother in a house with over fifty brothers, sisters and cousins. Her knowledge of the land went deep and the stories that he shared were very insightful. We passed Hana town and made our way towards Kipahulu where we saw such things as the seven pools at the Haleakala National Park, as well as the grave of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. We continued on through the Kaupo and Kanaio regions into Ulapalakua where we made our final stop at the Tedeschi Vinyard for some wine tasting. They had wines here that were made from grapes as well as from pineapples and the views from this section of the island are utterly amazing.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. This was not the first flight between North America and Europe, but he did achieve the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the Crime of the Century and was described by H. L. Mencken as the biggest story since the Resurrection. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim. By late 1935, the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist.
Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three German women (two from Bavaria, one from East Prussia) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world.