HAPPY MAY DAY - IT'S LEI DAY IN HAWAII!

History of May Day:

According to Harry B. Soria, the celebration of May 1 as Lei Day was invented in 1927 by island artist and writer Donald Benson Blanding and Grace Tower Warren. Don Blanding is also credited with the invention of the custom of tossing your lei overboard when you sailed away from Honolulu. If the lei came back to shore (and most did) it supposedly meant you would return.

"May Day is Lei Day in Hawai’i”! The first Lei Day was celebrated on May 1, 1928 with thousands participating State-wide. In 1929, May 1 of each year was proclaimed as “May Day is Lei Day in Hawai’i,” by Governor Wallace Farrington – to be observed “by all true friends of Hawai’i.”

Aloha!