Post #444265 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Apr 1, 2009 9:55 PM

"He chose Holly because his grandparents lived here when he was growing up, and he spent a lot of time here as a kid."
"...Fred said that he remembered coming down there with his grandma in the early 1900s – I’m guessing around the 1920s or so..."

So little Fred probably spent some summer afternoons splashing in Lake Mauna Loa, and curious about the funny name, heard his first stories of Hawaii, which fueled his imagination...