Speaking of grandfathers, Dallas’s dad and my dad both sent us the link to a story in The Garden Island News, the newspaper of Kaua’i. The article featured Deputy Sheriff William Olin Crowell in an “Island History” feature.  My dad sent the link and asked me, “Is this a relative of Dallas’s?” The answer, I found out, is that William Crowell is Dallas’s great grandfather.

It is interesting to note that the photo included with the story is actually Dallas’s great grandfather’s high school graduating class. William Crowell was part of the first graduating class from Kamehameha Schools in 1891. The school highly prefers students with Native Hawaiian ancestry. Most of Dallas’s family has attended Kamehamhea for many generations, going back to when the school was founded, as shown here.