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By Richard Milner/Feb. 15, 2021 9:12 am EDT
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island as it was called by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, is a small, 63-square-mile island at the southeast tip of what is referred to as the Polynesian triangle (Hawaii is at the northernmost tip, and Aotearoa New Zealand in the southwest). The size of the island, with its rocky coasts shorn yet green hilltops, belies the size of its complex history and home as one of archeology s largest, most enduring mysteries: the moai, its standout feature that most know as those big head statues.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle was a sixth-grader when she first visited Jack London State Park on a class field trip to view the Glen Ellen âBeauty Ranchâ of the famous writer.
There you can view the remains of his Wolf House, destroyed by fire before it was finished, the cottage where he died, and the rock marking the remains of the man who declared he would ârather be ashes than dust.â
It was some years later that Dunkle began to wonder about the woman who had lived in the other stone house on the grounds. Charmian Kittredge London, Jackâs widow, and his step-sister, Eliza Smith, built the imposing House of Happy Walls. After Charmianâs death in 1955, it became, as she had wished, a museum, and a tribute to the Londonsâ work and their life together.