PCC’s new voyaging master sails the Iosepa
For its first sail in eight years, the BYU–Hawaii canoe joins the FestPAC fleet, then circumnavigates O’ahu By Mikaele Foley LAIE, Hawaii, June 2024 —
For its first sail in eight years, the BYU–Hawaii canoe joins the FestPAC fleet, then circumnavigates O’ahu By Mikaele Foley LAIE, Hawaii, June 2024 —
Eriki Marchand, former “chief” of the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Marquesas tohua, recently revisited Laie to install a mural honoring the visit of King Kalākaua to Laie in 1894.
Milton Kaka’s video, “Tala,” traces the death of an infant girl in Samoa and its subsequent impact over 60 years ago.
The story behind the Cultural Center’s 60th-anniversary virtual choir video that was performed on screen during the opening devotional on October 8, 2023, in the BYU–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center, and is now online.
Kahuku 3rd Ward (Tongan) was one of three choir that performed during the PCC’s 60th anniversary’s opening devotional.
“Big Joe” Vakalalavanua was a very popular Fijian student-employee at the Center in the 1960s, and only returned once in 2002 after graduating.
Mama and Papa Pu, who were originally from Tuba’i, French Polynesia, served in the Tahitian Village until 1983.
The late Vaita’i Reed and Tauamō Malufau . . . at the opening of the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Hukilau Store, in 1999.
U.S. President George H.W. Bush took time to shake hands with some of the PCC/BYU Brass Band members, and the author!
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