Koloa feels the love on relaunched Facebook page

By Lee Cataluna

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 07, 2011

~~<p>Many towns have Facebook groups, online pages where nostalgia runs high as grownups check their murky childhood memories against those of their peers. The sites are popular with ex-pats who just can't get home often enough (but who, for whatever reason, just can't move back) and for middle-agers who never left but still barely recognize the old days paved over by years of change.</p>
<p>A page for <a span="" style="color: #0000FF;" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/oMf0rc">Koloa</a>, a southside Kauai town with deep roots in the plantation era and a looming pull into gentrification, has lit up in the past week.</p>
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Many towns have Facebook groups, online pages where nostalgia runs high as grownups check their murky childhood memories against those of their peers. The sites are popular with ex-pats who just can't get home often enough (but who, for whatever reason, just can't move back) and for middle-agers who never left but still barely recognize the old days paved over by years of change.

A page for Koloa, a southside Kauai town with deep roots in the plantation era and a looming pull into gentrification, has lit up in the past week. Login for more...