Things You'll Need:
- Men's Hawaiian Shirt
- Women's Hawaiian Shirt
- Hawaiian Music
- Airline Tickets To Hawaii
- Movie Rentals
- Museum Tickets
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Step 1
Read "All I Asking For Is My Body," by Japanese-Hawaiian author Milton Murayama. This powerful book evokes the coming of age of a Japanese-Hawaiian boy in the years leading up to World War II.
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Step 2
Learn about the fragile connections within a Hawaiian village in Sylvia Watanabe's book of interconnected stories, "Talking to the Dead and Other Stories."
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Step 3
Take a tour through the ages with James Michener's gargantuan historical novel, "Hawaii."
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Step 4
Travel vicariously through the Islands with one of the latest of the Traveler's Tales anthologies, "Hawaii: True Stories of the Island Spirit."
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Step 5
Rent "Picture Bride," a movie, directed by Hawaii-born filmmaker Kayo Hatta, about the experiences of a young Japanese woman sent as a picture bride to Hawaii in the early 20th century.
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Step 6
Look for the documentary, "Hawaiian Rainbow," about Hawaiian music and culture.
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Step 7
Watch "Molokai: The Story of Father Damien," a movie starring, among others, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill and Kris Kristofferson, and learn about the priest who moved to a leper colony on the tiny Hawaiian island of Molokai.
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Step 8
Listen to "Ka Ano'i," an album by the late singer Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole, whose lilting voice and devotion to Hawaiian culture and sovereignty earned him the love and respect of all Hawaiians.
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Step 9
Check out any of the CDs in the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters series on the Dancing Cat label. This relaxing, guitar-picking sound will make you feel like you're on the road to Hana on the island of Maui.
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Step 10
Melt to the sweet steel guitar and falsetto of vintage Hawaiian music with Rounder's Vintage Hawaiian CD series, which includes "Vintage Hawaiian Music: The Great Singers (1928-34)" and "Vintage Hawaiian Music: Steel Guitar Masters."
