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My late grandmother’s 10 acres of wild rainforest land, off a dirt road near Hāna, Maui, were part of a larger land grant given to our family more than 175 years ago by King Kamehameha III. When I ...

Hula teacher Christinia Pualani Lee broke her hip a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. But that didn’t keep her from doing the hula at her birthday party. She did the Hawaiian dance from her ...

Hula teacher Christinia Pualani Lee was about to turn 102 and her students wanted to throw a party despite the quarantine, a party befitting a beloved instructor who was born the year of the 1918 ...

When I went to Hawaii looking for the real hula -- something more authentic than "I'm just a little brown girl in a little grass skirt in a little grass shack in Hawaii" -- I hardly expected to find ...