This thumbnail sketch is an attempt to streamline Hawaii s history into some 8000 words. Few names or dates will be used, and mental excursions down tempting historical byways will be largely avoided. Some may adversely criticize this rash attempt but at least none shall say it isn t brief. Thus, in the hope that it will help interested new- comers in these stirring times to understand just a little about the background on the 50th State, Hawaii, here, for the busy person s benefit, is abbreviation with a vengeance.
