The old lava rock (technically basalt, quarried on site more than a century ago) walls and cool, fragrant interior of the Bishop Museum exude a majestic presence---as one enters, there is a sense of the ghostly presence of the kings and queens, aliʻi and common people of old.
The great kāhili of the monarchs, standing tall as ever in the Kāhili Hall, need to be experienced by every hula dancer as a reminder of where our dances come from. Hula Sister was pleased and honored to find a copy of "Hula Sister", the book, in the Bishop Museum Shop Pacifica, and to happily sign it at the request of shop manager Alex Ah Toi. To be in this historic place with my book was truly a deep and special experience....