A very Merrie Monarch Festival in 1984
![Cy Bridges (right) and the women of the Polynesian Cultural Center's hula hālau, Hui Honolulu Aloha, backstage at the 1984 Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo.](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hui-hooulu-merrie-monharch.jpg)
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.
Renée Ahuna Cabrinha: “Free rein” at the PCC
![Renée Ahuna Cabrinha practically grew up at the Polynesian Cultural Center as a young girl. He husband and children have also worked at the PCC.](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/renee_ahuna_cabrinha-2013.jpg)
Renée Ahuna Cabrinha practically grew up at the Polynesian Cultural Center as a young girl. He husband and children have also worked at the PCC.
Engineering key Maori, Samoan structures
![Traditional Samoan fare (houses) in 1962.](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/aoishian-samoa0-1962.jpg)
A Church engineer took this picture of traditional Samoan houses in 1962 to help create building plans for the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Center, BYUH forge closer ties to Iosepa
![The Iosepa crew at Kahana Bay, with training crew members from the Makali'i (in Kawaihae, Hawaii Island).](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/haverly-iosepa-makalii-crews-kahana.jpg)
The Polynesian Cultural Center and BYU–Hawaii have recently entered into a new agreement in which the PCC will take a bigger role with the BYUH’s 57-foot traditional sailing canoe, the Iosepa.
The “Soul of the Seafarer” and Mark Lee
![Ka 'Uhane Holokai sailing at Kahana Bay.](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ka-uhane-kahana-by-mark-lee.jpg)
Everyone knows about the BYU–Hawaii Iosepa canoe in the PCC’s Hawaiian Village . . . but did you know there’s a new 24-foot training canoe patterned after the Iosepa that’s recently been added to the “fleet.”
Silina Turaga Aina: Growing up at the Center
![Silina Aina](https://legacy.polynesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Silina-Aina.jpg)
It’s safe to say Silina Turaga Aina grew up as one of a small group of keiki at the Polynesian Cultural Center when her parents — Meleki and Sophia Turaga — were among the earliest people in the 1960s to work in the Fijian Village . . . and she’s still here, displaying and sharing her skills as a long-time weaver in the Hawaiian Village.