‘Colonel Twain’ visits the Center?
“Colonel” Mark Twain at the Center? Sort of, but no: He was an actor helping put together a tour operator brochure in 1985.
A very Merrie Monarch Festival in 1984
Cy Bridges and the women of the Polynesian Cultural Center’s hula hālau, Hui Ho’oulu Aloha, backstage at the 1984 Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo.
Tui Hunt Ikihega: A PCC “baby”
Tua Hunt’s mother and father were both working at the Center when she was born . . . and she soon joined them, later returning as a student employee.
Vi’iga Fuimaono Jr: “My second home”
Vi’iga Fuimaono Jr. worked his way through college as a Polynesian Cultural Center’s canoe guide, and has held a number of important positions since in Samoa.
Brent Malolo: Canoe dancer, night show performer
Malolo grew up in a small village on the Samoan island of Savai’i, and went to school in the capital and near Wellington, New Zealand, before attending BYU–Hawaii and working at the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Ottley Wright: ‘PCC, like a family’
Ottley Wright — came to Laie in 1984, and worked at the PCC as a canoe tour and Laie Tour guide — at the Center’s 50th-anniversary reunion.
