Our first list 50 Essential Hawai‘i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime was one of our most popular stories ever, but it didn’t do justice to our flourishing regional literary scene. So here we go again: More of da kine, only bigger, broader, deeper.
Reigning from 1825 to 1854 nearly three decades King Kamehameha III was the longest governing monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The king was only 10 years Guests can learn to string lei in the Royal Grove at the Royal Hawaiian Center.