Hani and Lani's Heavenly Trip

About the Book

Hani and Lani’s Heavenly Trip recalls childhood accounts of galactic experiences. Hani and Lani were twin sisters who grew up during Hawai‘i’s sugar and pineapple plantation era. Buck Rogers from the Sunday newspaper’s comic strip may have been their only reference to space travel. Their tour guide for the trip through the heavens was Uncle Wind. He introduced them to all of their celestial cousins, previously only be in the evening and night skies.

About the Author

Uluhani Ononui was born and raised in Hawai‘i, in a sugar plantation town on the Island of Kaua‘i. Home was a rambling house on a two-acre parcel surrounded by coconut palms and mango trees. She and her five siblings and her Mother lived with her grandparents. Her Grandmother (“Tutu”) was from Japan; her Grandfather was a Hawaiian cowboy and the local sheriff. Uluhani attended the local schools, obtained her teaching certificate in California, and her Masters Degree from the University of Hawai‘i. She was certified to teach kindergarten through twelfth grade and taught school for thirty-six years. Her stories are autobiographical and reflect her memories of Kaua’i transitioning from an agrarian society of subsistence farming, sugar and pineapple plantations, to a modern tourist Mecca, Pacific bastion of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, and mid-Pacific crossroads of international business, communications, and travel