Kapoho at HVNP?

[Frankie Stapleton]

I was wondering if anyone made it up to Tuesday's After Dark in the Park talk about the Kapoho eruption? Sure would like to hear highlights...

BTW, those of you living in lower Puna should read the HVO file on the 1924 explosive eruption of Halemaumau. I did so recently...lots more than I'd read before and very interesting info about what went on in lower Puna both prior to and during the activity that eliminated (at least temporarily) the lava lake in Halemaumau. Mud from Kilauea's summit raining on the train at Makuu!

Here's the link: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/history/1924May18/

[Kelena]

Great read, Frankie. I love the poem that a nurse wrote about a young man that was killed at the summit by a flying boulder. It was printed in the Hilo Tribune Herald on May 20,1924 -- the day of the young man's funeral:


In Memory of Truman C. Taylor

A godlike man,
So young and strong,
Who surely never
Did a wrong.
So why did he
Brave Pele's wrath
And walk across
Her awful path?
Perhaps she lured him
As of old
The sirens did
So I've been told.
She doubtless beckoned,
He obeyed And in her arms
A moment swayed.
She drew him close
In wild embrace,
Then with one blow
His life effaced.
But blame him not.
In every life
Are tempting moments
When we're rife
With turbulent passions.
Daring souls
Who stake their all
On tragic goals.
I stood beside him
As he prayed
For god's kind mercy.
And he gave
His thanks to all
Who by him stayed.
He never breathed
A mournful sigh,
He did not ask
The reason why
That he was doomed
So soon to die.
He only smiled
And said "goodbye."